Word: beanstalking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...National Dehydrators Association believes that their small industry (1941 turnover: $12,000,000) is going to beanstalk like the frozen foods industry, which in 1942 will quick-freeze an estimated $90,000,000 worth of food-180 times its volume only ten years back. Pointing to the 114 dehydrating plants built by the Nazis since 1935 (before then Germany had only six), they suggest that if the U.S. is going to ship food to its troops and allies all over the planet, it had best get busy concentrating the food so that one boat can do the victualing...
...Beans Set Pace for Chicago Grains," headlined the New York Times one day last week, marking another new high for the most fantastic legume since Jack & the beanstalk. In 1917 the U.S. produced only 1,000,000 bushels of soybeans, in 1923 only 6,541,000; but last week crop experts foresaw a harvested soybean crop of 110,000,000 bushels-plus perhaps as much again that will be plowed under as fertilizer, used as pasturage, cured as hay or stored as silage. Next year the U.S. may well overtake Manchukuo (140,000,000 bu.) as the No. 2 soybean...
...McFadden discovered Tsar Saltan on a trip to Russia, translated it herself, had it streamlined and arranged for piano accompaniment. The other Junior opera in the repertory is Louis Gruenberg's Jack and the Beanstalk. Newest of Junior ballets is Robin Hood, written by Junior Programs Producer Saul Lancourt, danced to old English tunes.* Last week, on the heels of the ballet troupe, the Junior Programs opera company went on a 30-week tour, its ten members in automobiles, its scenery and costumes in a truck...