Word: beets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They found a good sugar-beet crop waiting for them, but all the sugar factories wrecked. They set women to harvesting standing wheat and rye, but they had to harvest with scythes and horses instead of modern machinery. They tried to get autumn sowing done, but only put in from 5% to 7% of normal seedings...
Significant was the convention's treatment of two men who have been Legion heroes for almost a quarter-century: Missouri's beet-faced, belligerent Senator Bennett Champ Clark, New York's gangling, ham-handed Representative Hamilton Fish, both airtight, waterproof, hermetically sealed Isolationists. Clark, one of the 17 Legion founders and the first permanent Legion chairman, was roundly booed. Fish, who wrote the preamble to the Legion constitution, came to town to make converts, soon gave up and left...
...farmer was Hermann Rauschning (The Revolution of Nihilism}. Not a Junker, but "a distant connection of most of the Junker families of East Prussia," Rauschning ran "a medium-sized farm of not quite 250 acres" near Danzig, stepped up its sugar-beet and flax yield by intensive cultivation. Believing that "the breeder is a co-creator and an ennobler of nature," he raised purebred horses and heifers. Believing in "the full quiver," he sired eight children, lost three...
Around the town hall of suburban Saint-Denis swirled a crowd of clamorous Parisian mothers one day last week. Voices cracking, beet-faced with anger, recklessly hoisting their hungry, squalling children aloft, the rioters screamed for milk. In suburban Brunoy and Suresnes more mobs gathered. Excitement mounted. Rocks flew...
...Ickes once said: "The beet sugar industry has no justification for existence. It is kept alive by artificial means and is a detriment to itself and the country...