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The Debt Pyramid. At first, Menderes' development program had nothing but happy results. Acreage under cultivation doubled. In 1953, when good weather gave it the biggest wheat crop in history -8,200,000 tons v. 3,800,000 in 1950-Turkey became for the first time a substantial exporter...
Out of the Barn. Until the 1930s, the stock figure of the veterinarian in U.S. life was the horse doctor who operated, with a heavy harness to restrain his unanesthetized victim, in any handy barn. He would handle anything from a Chihuahua to a Percheron, prescribed more worm medicine than...
The effect was to create a whole new industry. Overall poultry production climbed 334% nationally in ten years, while prices to the housewife dropped more than 30% as the market broadened and the quality of chickens improved. In 1947 the U.S. per capita consumption of chicken was 18.1 Ibs.; last...
Largely because of the impetus Neil McElroy gave to research and development, about 70% of Procter & Gamble's income last year came from products that did not exist a dozen years before. Overall results of the McElroy regime: Procter & Gamble's net sales doubled, moving over the billion...
In 1952 Cincinnatian McElroy contributed to the preconvention campaign of Cincinnatian Robert A. Taft, but supported Ike in the general election. As a Harvard overseer and an adviser to the University of Cincinnati, McElroy had long been a lay educational leader, and in 1954 President Eisenhower tapped him for a...