1. Today, over ____________________ billion humans on planet earth. In just four

generations, our population has grown by over ____________________ billion. Faster in

the first ____________________ years of the twentieth century than in the previous

____________________.

2. What happened to the Midwest in 1935? _______________________________________

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3. What wonder crop does Roswell Garst believe will save the Midwest?

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4. Why are farmers initially reluctant to buy the seed from Garst? ______________________

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5. Garst gambles everything. He gives farmers the seed for ____________________ in

return for a share of their ____________________. Across fifty counties, in

____________________ states, during the worst drought every, miraculous

____________________.

6. What other revolutionary product does Garst sell? ________________________________

7. Today almost every industrial ____________________ uses nitrogen fertilizer. Garst

becomes an international ____________________ consultant and one of the largest

____________________ suppliers in the world.

8. With new crops and ____________________, we've grown more in the last

____________________ years than in the previous ____________________.

9. 1942. Mankind's first truly global ____________________. In Europe,

____________________ Germany dominates. In the Pacific, Imperial

____________________. The largest state in the U.S., ____________________,

dangerously close to Asia and isolated.

10. Now, ____________________ American soldiers blaze an impossible trail, the Alcan

Highway, to link ____________________ to west coast ____________________ and the