Word: caning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mine Coal With Bayonets? Also swinging a cane, wearing a Florida tan, President Truman stepped out of his plane and went to the White House to confer with his advisers. Harry Truman, who had made the decisions which had precipitated the battle and had directed it step by step, faced the most suspenseful week of his year and a half in office. Men close to him said that he was determined not to give...
Report has it that "Blue Skies" marks Fred Astaire's dancing exit from the screen. The performance of Astaire's brilliant extremities causes even the easeful singing of a portly Der Bingle to pale by comparison. Two of Astaire's routines are especially good--a top-hat-and-cane number, "Putting On The Ritz," and a technicolorful costume piece, "Heat Wave." While not quite up to the standard of his "Limehouse Blues" performance in "Ziegfield Follies," they still feature Mr. Astaire, and that, fans, will suffice...
...sugarfield workers spread a pall over all commerce, trade and finance. In Hilo (pop. 23,353), drug sales dropped as much as 30%; dry goods, 33%; auto service, 60%. Plantations lost an estimated $21 million of business; workers lost almost $8 million in wages. Acres of unattended cane, which must be irrigated to survive, withered in the hot Hawaiian sunshine, and the world lost 180,850 tons of raw sugar. Estimates of the time it will take to put plantations back on production schedules ran up to four years...
...stream flowing through the area have been constructed. Dr. Kevorkin and his superintendent are the only Americans now working at Soledad; the rest of the employees are Cubans. The Atkins Foundation was the first to introduce teak to Cuba and has succeeded in producing better strains of sugar cane through selection and breeding. A terrific hurricane in 1935 wreaked great damage to the trees in the Soledad Gardens but foresight in planting duplicate trees prevented excessive losses...
...Nazareth, observed by the eating of barbecued beef, drinking rum aged in coconuts and dropping contributions into Our Lady's donkey cart, had just ended. South on the Hump, in the states of Pernambuco and Baía, the spring rains brought up tender green sprouts of sugar cane and tobacco, promising record crops...