Word: buckwheat
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Early one morning last week, Farmer Frederick Henry Dennis, 34, looked out over his 1,000-acre farm at Poslingford Hall, Suffolk. He saw a strange young man drive a big caterpillar tractor into a 20-acre field of ripe buckwheat and calmly begin to plow in the precious crop. Dennis ran towards him, cursing and shouting...
Said the stranger: "I have my orders. The County Agricultural Committee have ordered me to plow in this buckwheat." Then he went on plowing...
...family finally took him out so he "wouldn't be a-disgracing 'em." Before he left, he won a spelling bee, a triumph as sweet then as his cotton deal was last week. Said he proudly: "I sure showed 'em where the bear sat in the buckwheat...
Meanwhile the derelict Farmer was legitimate quarry for salvagers. An 8,258-ton vessel owned by the United States Lines, she was loaded with buckwheat and other food for hungry Britain. Ship and cargo together were worth $4,500,000. A sister ship, the American Ranger, and a U.S. destroyer hastened to her side. But a dinky British steamer out of Cardiff, the Elizabete, got there first...
...dynamic, impish 65-year-old Lord Privy Seal, visited his old Canadian boyhood haunts in the Newcastle district of New Brunswick. Remembered by old neighbors in Newcastle as plain Mr. Aitken, he thanked his good friend, William Corbett, a grocery clerk, for sending to London his favorite recipe for buckwheat flapjacks, called on an aged recluse who writes him a weekly Newcastle newsletter, went salmon fishing...