Word: beets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exception was Cuba. To prop up her sugar cane industry, Cuba asked for $50,000,000, settled for $11,200,000 and an upped sugar quota. When the sugar beet growers in the U. S. heard about the deal and their reduced 1941 quota (16% below 1940), they roared, charged the New Deal with wanting to kill the industry, quoted Secretary Ickes* to prove...
Wodehouse's American friends for a long time heard nothing about him at all. This week they learned that he is interned in a former insane asylum at Tost, a small village in the monotonous sugar-beet flatlands of Upper Silesia. Wodehouse has been there since the prison camp was created last September. No Castle Blandings, his prison is a big, brick, T-shaped, three-storied structure with many barred windows, high brick & wooden walls. A small military garrison runs and guards the camp. Central heating is said to be good, sanitation adequate. There are hospital facilities...
...Before World War II Western sugar-beet farmers were content to import European seeds for each year's crop. It was cheaper than paying U. S. labor to gather their own. Foreseeing a shortage, Oregon beet farmers planted 1,000 acres of seed for 1940 harvest, nearly doubled the acreage for 1941. It has been a profitable operation. Selling at 7½? a lb., beet seed nets Oregonians a neat $125 an acre...
...whom I signed up were mostly laborers from . . . the slum district north of town, and transient workers following up the potato and beet harvest, the damp earth still caked on their overalls and arms. All day long they straggled into the basement of the courthouse, their suspicion, disgruntlement and sometimes defiance thinly veiled by meticulous courtesy, cooperativeness and attitude of resignation. It seems to me that Uncle Sam is going to have one grand headache keeping tabs on these transient workers. Many of them were stumped when asked to give their address or the name of a person who would...
...matches in unoccupied France, LIFE reports in an essay on Vichy this week. Matches came from Scandinavia and the Germans let no more through. Milk, butter and cheese are scarce or nonexistent, for the Germans rule the great northwestern dairy area. No new stores of sugar from the occupied beet-sugar district around Lille are destined for Free France. Free France will eat none of this summer's harvest from the breadbasket of the northern plains. There is still tobacco in the Rhone Valley and Auvergne, but those shops in Provence that still have stocks also have queues outside...