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...putting up factories, dredging ports, bulldozing roads, planting new crops, nobody found time or talent to coordinate and manage all the projects. Factories were located in one part of the country, the electric power to operate them in another. Sugar mills seemed to get built near voters, not beet fields. As soon as new cement plants got into production, their output poured off into the walls of speculative apartment houses in Istanbul instead of more urgently needed factory floors. When Turkey's huge new wheat crops poured to market, no facilities were there for cleaning the grain...
Months later Shigeko was still bald and beet-complexioned, so she was dubbed Aka Oni (Red Devil). After a nurse ordered her burned hands bandaged, they became gnarled like briar roots, and she lost the use of fingers and hands alike. For Shigeko's was one of the stubborn cases suffering both contractions and keloid growths (in effect, tumors of scar tissue). Shigeko could not work. She had no hope of marriage. And at the Nagaragawa Methodist Church she met scores of other girls in like plight. The Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto called them "The Hiroshima Maidens...
...four times and the father of nine, Faddist Macfadden's simpler tenets included "grass eating, having babies without doctors, standing on your head to make your hair grow." He favored one-legged squatting exercises, no alcohol, no steaks (lunch varied from grass tea and pea soup to nuts, beet juice and carrot strips). He pioneered in popularizing bed-boards, enriched flour, scanty swimsuits and sunbathing. He celebrated his 81st, 83rd and 84th birthdays by parachuting from aircraft, getting his brittle, still impressively muscular 5-ft. 6-in. body to earth without injury...
Afterwards-after the heart-stopping order, "Prepare to abandon aircraft!", after the shock of the opening chute and the jarring drop onto a British beet field -Lieut. Ripault, Free French navigator flying with the R.A.F., lost all contact with the war. He was the only survivor of a two-plane crackup and he hardly knew what had happened. "I'm not clear about anything," he told his squadron commander. At the moment, he did not care...
...agricultural pie has been sliced up time and again, until a good-sized farm in France hardly exceeds 50 acres. Such small-farming (although a land reformer's dream) does not make much economic sense and exists largely because of government subsidy-e.g., Napoleon subsidized sugar-beet growers during the British blockade, and they are still subsidized. The eldest son of a farmer can stay around and hope to earn a living from the small acreage, but usually the other children must clear out. Some try to get jobs in the local village as administrators or market workers...