Word: yieldings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tortillas for 17. In Tennessee (average corn yield 25 bushels an acre), hybrid corn has produced 157.2 bushels an acre. The produce of one such bountiful acre would keep 17 corn-eating Mexican peas ants in tortillas for a year. Such results reduce to gibberish Vogt's theory of "biotic potential...
Bunkum, too, say the soil men, is the notion that the world has little new soil to cultivate. There is plenty of new soil. Some can be worked by old familiar methods; some will require the methods recently developed. Enormous areas, especially in the tropics, will almost certainly yield, sooner or later, to scientific agriculture...
Departmental economics might make up for the lost fees, the Committee suggested, but added that it did not know if this would yield any funds since it had "the highest regard for Dr. Bock's ability as administrator." (Dr. Arlie V. Bock is chairman of the Hygiene Department...
...Younger clerics on Laval's faculty were all for meeting the need. But older heads stood against them: there was no room for business and industry in the place which Bishop de Laval himself had ordained as "a perpetual school of virtue." Not until 1937 did the opposition yield enough to approve a faculty of science. Not until February, 1947, did Laval have a school of commerce...
California's Lane-Wells Co. has the combination to a safe packed with black gold. It specializes in getting oil from wells that have run dry. By literally shooting out the oil with a gadget called a gun perforator, Lane-Wells has increased the yield of U.S. wells by an estimated $200 million. Last week, with demand for oil at a peak, the company was booming as never before. For five consecutive months, it has grossed more than $1,000,000 a month. With a second-quarter net of $1,143,200, Lane-Wells was earning around...