Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Land-tax reform to encourage more productive use of land. Much of Colombia's good crop land is owned by absentees who use it for low-yield grazing, or simply hold on to it as an investment. By taxing unused and underused land, the government could force big landowners to sell some of their holdings to farmers or go into farming themselves...
...Earth, Air & Water. First atomic news that reaches Japan from a "high-yield" explosion in mid-Pacific is carried by earth waves, detected by seismographs. They are followed about three hours later by air waves, picked up by barographs. Then come ocean waves, which register on tide gauges...
...committees were not much worried about nuclear-weapons tests. "High-yield" thermonuclear explosions toss radioactive material into the stratosphere, where it hangs for years drifting around the earth. The tests also raise the radio active level of large areas of ocean. But these effects are slight, and will do no appreciable harm unless the tempo of bomb testing is increased many times over. There is nothing, say the scientists, to the popular idea that bomb testing has upset the world's weather...
...most exciting possibility Teller mentioned last. It is at least theoretically possible, he said, that a thermonuclear reactor may yield electric power direct, without costly and inefficient turbines, generators, etc. This is almost out of the question with uranium reactors, but the "magnetic bottle" of the thermonuclear reactor is electrical to start with. "If we shall have learned," said Teller, "how to confine a plasma of considerable pressure by a magnetic field, then it should not be too difficult to extract energy from the plasma by varying the magnetic field...
...Farmer Henry Haskett was haled into court for carrying a piano in a truck insured only for agricultural use, claimed it was a farm implement, explained to the judge: "Twice a day my wife and son take turns playing soothing music at milking time. Some cows won't yield milk unless they are kept amused...