Word: hybridization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that President "Eisenhower's plan for mutual inspection of bomb installations in the U.S. and Russia is a practical first step toward making the world safe from one of its most explosive dangers," later added that he was through with politics. Hereafter he will just cultivate his garden (hybrid strawberries and gladioli...
...generation ago hybridization of corn -combining the best properties of parent types into a better offspring-revolutionized U.S. agriculture, resulted in upping corn yields by 500 million bu. without putting a new acre into cultivation. Last week U.S. Agriculture Department scientists reported another breakthrough with another feed grain: the flat-leafed, tall-stalked sorghum that waves in many a dry field in the Great Plains. Within five years most of the more than 10 million acres now planted to grain sorghum will be switched to the new hybrid seed, thus raise sorghum output by 20% to 40% on the same...
...Agriculture Department, the Russians kept up the momentum of their questioning. They asked for samples of hybrid corn, agreed to exchange seeds; the Russians wondered whether the Department told farm-machinery companies what kind of tractors and combines they should design. When they were informed that the U.S. now has more than 4,600,000 tractors-compared to 1,500,000 fifteen years ago, one of the Russians threw his hands above his head in amazement...
...M.S.U. While Ann Arbor attracted such scholars as Philosopher John Dewey and Historian Andrew D. White, later president of Cornell, East Lansing's foremost teachers were men who spent as much time helping farmers as lecturing to students. William J. Beal unlocked some of the secrets of hybrid corn; Liberty Hyde Bailey began the career that was to make him one of the foremost U.S. horticulturists. Entomologist Albert Cook developed a kerosene emulsion that became a standard insecticide for Michigan fruit...
...stand with a giant packing box filled with old press handouts and one thin folder of financial documents. Secretary Weeks, said Witness White, had refused him permission to bring along B.A.C.'s official files, which fill 35 cabinets. Celler cried that B.A.C. is "a sort of hybrid organization ... It may do a great deal of good ... It may do a great deal of harm...