Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...River Valley is fertile soil for the seeds of discontent. There, in a densely overpopulated farmland whose every square mile must support 470 people, 80,000 field hands seek work on a puny 132,000 acres of farmland, get their wages-if any-in the wheat and sugar-beet yield of the land itself. With holdings averaging 20 acres or less apiece, the farmers are themselves poor, bitter, hard pressed. For years the richest harvest reaped in the Valley has been one of violence, distrust and hatred...
...Japan Air Lines Skymaster (DC-4), accompanied by 15 advisers and 13 Japanese newsmen. "Economic diplomacy," he called his mission. He spoke for a nation whose per capita income is over $200, three times that of India, whose steel production is five times that of India, and whose rice yield is the envy of all Asia. In Washington he will argue that it is Japan, rather than more populous India, that in Asia could balance the growing economic weight of Communist China...
From the military point of view, clean megaton bombs have two strikes against them: 1) they are built at very high cost in explosive yield, presumably because they cannot use cheap and plentiful uranium 238; and 2) they may be good for special military uses, such as obliterating a city whose site must be occupied soon, but they lack the full punch of "dirty" megaton bombs. No one could be sure that a U.S. enemy, for instance, would use a clean bomb to obliterate Washington when the fallout of a dirty one might kill, in addition, most of the inhabitants...
...Announced, as the West German Bundestag called on the U.S., Britain and Russia to suspend nuclear-weapons testing, that observers from 47 nations (not including India, the U.S.S.R. or its satellites) had been invited to witness a series of "low-yield" (tactical) nuclear-weapons shots in Nevada starting May 16. Purpose: "To familiarize them with U.S. testing policies and operations, especially safety procedures...
...first contribution from the Breed estate arrived last December, and the rest came in three installments last month. The usual five percent return will yield a yearly income of about $2000 to maintain the sport at both varsity and freshman levels. That sum is almost one-half of the yearly expenses of these teams...