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With the help of the charts and the company's own meteorologists, field supervisors can predict far in advance almost the exact hour when the peas have reached their point of destiny. Then, loud whistles send workers scrambling into the fields at any hour to harvest the crop. "It sounds silly," admits a Green Giant officer, "but if we figure the peas should be picked at 10 o'clock Sunday night, that is when we start picking." Later, quality-control men count the loose skins in cans-rejecting those with too many -and make an "organoleptic" test...
...earnings. President Felton, former accountant, has installed "profit directors'' for each major commodity to do little else than devise means for making more money. He also makes good use of the company's appealing trademark, the jovial giant who stands with his feet planted in the harvest fields. The image, on which Green Giant spends $8,000,000 a year in advertising and promotion, makes customers smile-and stockholders too. Because of new diversification, Felton looks for a big profit jump once the frozen food line and other new products are better established. But while it moves...
...Harvesting Idealism. NSC aims to start small with 500 volunteers by midsummer, probably hit peak strength in three years with 3,000 to 5,000 members. It will cost then about $10 million a year (one-sixth of this year's Peace Corps budget). For recruits, it will rely heavily on students and retired people, demanding slightly lower physical standards than the overseas Peace Corps. Domestic corpsmen need not be college graduates, but will have to be U.S. citizens aged at least 18 (no top limit), with warm, steady characters and almost any useful skill. They will get four...
...explains one Western expert in Hong Kong, "cotton and cloth was one place where you could squeeze the people." Peking squeezed hard, cutting back cotton acreage at least 20% so that every spare clod of earth could be sown to grains. The result: China's 1962 grain harvest was up 10% to 182 million metric tons, while the cotton crop may have fallen to as low as 1,200,000 metric tons, down one-third from 1958. Further aggravating the situation at home, Peking sold huge amounts of cotton abroad to earn foreign exchange. With the onset...
Except for 1958, each harvest has been lower than the previous year's. Worst year of all was 1962, when the virgin lands delivered only half their quotas...