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McKay's policies have paid off: since 1951. the number of stakes (dioceses) has risen from 180 to 350, and the annual harvest of converts has risen steadily rom 17,000 to more than 100,000 in 1962. Mormons now open one new chapa week, and are in the midst of a building program that includes a 30-to 40-floor skyscraper on Manhattan's 58th Street, a new 25-story office building m Salt Lake City. "David O " disclaims credit for any of it "The rea son we grow," he says, "is that there is church-wide...
...greens, golds, purples and rich browns had never seemed more luxuriant than this fall. They splashed across the plains and hills in patchwork squares and furrowed curlicues. To harvest their bounty, farmers arose at dawn, gulped down hot breakfasts, climbed onto their great machines and roared onto the fields. Hour after hour they worked, often far into the night. Day after day they labored, until the land was cleared of all but stubble. Then they returned to the fields to prepare them for spring sowing...
...mark of 19.1. North Dakota wheat yielded 28.7 bu., more than twice last year's, and nearly double the ten-year average. Iowa corn came in at 76 bu. per acre, well above the ten-year average of 57.2. Thanks to modern farm technology, the total harvest was wrought from 288 million acres of cropland-10 million fewer than last year. By 1980, when the U.S. will have 250 million mouths to feed, the farmer will be able to produce all the food and fiber necessary for domestic and export use on only 238 million acres...
...Tudor office building in Buenos Aires, a clattering telex last week typed out more than 1,000 messages a day from the four corners of the world. There was news of jute prices in Calcutta, of harvest prospects in Illinois, and of grain shipments from Australia. All these reports had the same addressee: Bunge & Born Ltd., a firm so powerful that Argentines call it "El Pulpo"-the Octopus...
...would go to just about any lengths to avoid putting on a new suit. He would work without stopping for 15 hours at a stretch, would often compulsively paint a picture on top of another before the first was even dry. Clients who thought that they had bought a harvest scene would find that it had turned into a woodland before it was delivered...