Word: beetly
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...sugar-beet harvester that tops the beets, lifts them, shakes the dirt off, drops the beets in a hopper and tosses the tops in a windrow. It makes beet-picking so much cheaper that it may end the long fight over the sugar-beet tariff...
...Rock-ribbed Republican Jesse Wolcott had little to fear in the way of questioning from his rock-ribbed Republican constituency on Michigan's Thumb. The Thumb's thrifty sugar-beet and dairy farmers sent Jesse Wolcott back to Congress even in the 1932 Roosevelt landslide. He knows they are disgusted with the Administration's handling of the home front. His constituents, he learned, take for granted that Franklin Roosevelt will run for a Fourth Term and they will vote against him, no matter how the war is going. In his talks to luncheon clubs and his chats...
...root vegetable called "wobbie," a cross between a carrot and a beet, with three to four times more vitamin C than either, is already under wide cultivation in The Netherlands. The Netherlands Press Agency in London made the announcement, but neglected to allay suspicions as to how wobbie would taste...
...atom-smashing cyclotron was harnessed to the militarily secret imagination of Nobel Prizeman Ernest Orlando Lawrence. The Signal Corps invaders of the Agricultural College at Davis had not disturbed the quiet of university researchers. They had just discovered, for instance, that of each sugar-beet seed's five segments, only one need be planted-thus avoiding the wearisome labor of thinning...
Drill formation were often irksome--but General Quarters Drill will also require physical exertion and military precision. There weren't very many free evening--but we did manage to make a few liberties, and in Boston at least, the beet is cold and the files don't bite...