Foreign Agriculture: A Review of Foreign Farm Policy, Production, and TradeU.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Agricultural Economics - Agriculture |
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Page 81 - For the LORD thy GOD bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills ; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates ; a land of oil olive, and honey...
Page 119 - The restoration or maintenance in European countries of principles of individual liberty, free institutions, and genuine independence rests largely upon the establishment of sound economic conditions, stable international economic relationships, and the achievement by the countries of Europe of a healthy economy independent of extraordinary outside assistance.
Page 22 - European recovery program countries just completed by the Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations of the United States Department of Agriculture.
Page 115 - Fourth, we must embark on a bold new program for making the benefits of our scientific advances and industrial progress available for the improvement and growth of under-developed areas.
Page 76 - ... the controlling purpose of such education shall be to fit for useful employment ; that such education shall be of less than college grade and shall be designed to meet the needs of persons over 14 years of age who are preparing for a trade or industrial pursuit or who have entered upon the work of a trade or industrial pursuit • • ».
Page 182 - During the latter part of the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth century, the application of quantitative methods of science was extended to psychology and so to education. This period saw the development of the 'test' phenomenon, which culminated in the test boom of the 1920 to 1930 period.
Page 227 - The Governor in Council may by order grant authority to any board or agency authorized under the law of any province to exercise powers of regulation in relation to the marketing of any agricultural product locally within the province...
Page 9 - ... The Circum-Caribbean Tribes, were received in galley proof. With the exception of the linguistic section, volume 5, The Comparative Anthropology of South American Indians, was completed and submitted to the editor of the Bureau of American Ethnology for the final editing. During the fiscal year, the Interdepartmental Committee on Scientific and Cultural Cooperation of the Department of State granted the Bureau of American Ethnology $15,000 toward the cost of publishing the Handbook. SPECIAL RESEARCHES...
Page 95 - He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must take the wealth of the Indies with him ; ' and truly this aphorism could not find a better application than in my case.
Page 111 - Division, Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington 25, DC...