Word: hybridization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this musing, onetime (1941-45) Vice President Henry A. Wallace, hybrid-corn developer and gentleman farmer, added that population trends are indeed "ruining gradually though surely the quality of human life," plumped for hereditary records and genetic guidance "to enable intelligent young people to make free-choice the matings which will increase the genetic wealth of our planet." But such instruments would never, he said hopefully, "be used by any genetic Hitler...
Benson has been the victim of a farm-productivity revolution, the combined workings of improved fertilizers, more and bigger farm machinery, deadlier pesticides and higher-yielding hybrid plants. But even his friends have begun to wonder whether he may have hindered rather than helped his announced aims. He justly carps at Capitol Hill's farm-vote-minded refusal to grant him all the support-shrinking powers he has asked for ("Our recommended program has never been given a real try"), but he has not always used the powers that he has to limit price supports, e.g., he voluntarily provided...
...during November, much sleeker, with less chrome than the '58 Mercury. There will be 35% more window space; instrument panels have been moved forward 6 in. for greater legroom. Ford's Edsel and Lincoln will get minor facelifts. About December the company will bring out a hybrid Ford with the body of a Fairlane and the roof of a Thunderbird. Called the Galaxy, it will sell for somewhat more than the '58 Fairlanes, which ranged from...
...Hybrid. In New Britain, Conn., when police asked William Stubbs, 23, what he was doing up a cherry tree, he explained that he was looking for apples...
...years: barley that yields 37 bu. per acre instead of the usual 24, wheat that yields 56 bu. instead of 29 and matures three to four weeks earlier, thus allowing two crops yearly. Tibaitata's scientists are experimenting with a barley that brings 102 bu. per acre, a hybrid corn that yields as much...