Word: barley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...About 107,000,000 tons of feed grains (corn, oats, barley, sorghum), 14% below last year but 7% above average...
...after the war, Australia-from her 120 million sheep and millions of cattle-can supply us with wool and steaks . . .; she has a surplus of wheat and barley; all this can repay us and mutually increase both our standards of living...
...Total wheat production is estimated at only 730,524,000 bushels, down a whopping 26% under last year. Likewise down is the estimated production of oats (by 14%); barley (13%); rye (41%); peaches (32%); pears (21%); cherries (15%) and commercial truck crops...
...detail. An unusual plot conception adds interest to the story, but its triumph is the integration of plot will the delineation of character and scene to achieve a unity of achievement uncommon in undergraduate literary effort. Ralph Bennett has contributed an excellent account of an everyday incident at a barley harvest. More a narrative essay than a short story, this episode gains from Bennett's obvious familiarity with his material and from his facility of description and mood. The story, "Cold July," is neither exciting nor obscurely modern; it has the virtue of literary excellence...
...louder noise came. It was an artillery barrage-the heaviest since El Alamein. It concentrated on Djebel Roumana, and when it had walked back & forth across the hill for a couple of hours, British infantry rose up from the wild barley growing in the sand and stormed the height...