Word: barley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grain Greens. From fresh wheat, oats, rye, barley and other grains and grasses, Cerophyl Laboratories of Kansas City, Mo. make a dried cereal leaf product called Grass-Tips. The shoots are cut when the first joint appears on the stem, are dried, powdered and made into pellets as green as the fields from which they come. They taste a little like a blade of grass. All vitamins (except D) are present, as well as the less-known grass-juice factor. Five generations of guinea pigs have been raised on nothing but Grass-Tips pellets and water. Quaker Oats...
...Italian people Tripoli was a proud name, a "jewel city." They saw logic in Mussolini's empire-mongering when Tripolitania produced olives, grapes, barley, wheat, almonds and figs for the homeland. It cost millions of lire to get production started, but the returns were in food, not, as in other of Il Duce's ventures, in crippled and dead soldiers...
Getting Along. Both the doughboys and their hosts were trying hard to get along. In England Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told them, "We'll even learn baseball if you give us time." Doughboys in southern England pitched in and helped harvest rye, wheat and barley. The British conceded, sometimes disappointedly, that they were not so wild & wooly as expected. Instead, they were willing to indulge...
...appeared. Sugar-beet farmers need their help now: they have more than 1,000,000 acres of beets to be blocked and thinned. Other farmers are waiting, too. After beets, in rapid succession the Okies are needed to cut hay and clover, plant soybeans, start harvesting oats, wheat and barley. But the migrants have disappeared like the Egyptians in the Red Sea. The farmers don't know what's become of their wandering field hands. Perhaps they have no tires or gasoline. Maybe they've found better jobs in defense plants, or signed up to fight...
...more eggs; the farmers by February had already given him 15%. He asked for 9,000,000 acres of soybeans; the farmers planned to plant 14,000,000. He asked for 8% more corn, to be fed to more hogs and cattle; the farmers promised 5% plus a barley expansion which would make up the difference. Only in peanuts were plantings behind the goals; instead of the 255% increase he asked for, he will...