Word: caning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston, a six-year-old boy tumbled off a porch into a rosebush, was rushed to a hospital. There Surgeon Richard H. Miller probed a hole in the boy's jaw, found the broken end of a rose cane, began to pull it. Out came a rush of blood. The surgeon quickly shoved the stick back. Then he cut open the boy's neck down to the collarbone, found that the cane had gone through the jugular vein...
Other crop reports made great expectations greater. In prospect are record yields of peaches, plums, truck produce and tobacco, near record yields of oats, rice, peanuts, potatoes, pears, grapes, cherries and sugar cane; average or better yields of hay, prunes, sugar beets and dry peas. July's milk production was up to 11,956,000,000 lbs., more than one billion higher than a ten-year (1935-44) average for the month; July egg production was up an astronomical 4,221,000,000, more than a half billion better than the ten-year average...
...warm, sticky lowlands of the north, sugar cane was being cut. But for the most part, it was off season on the Argentine farm. In the windy, wintry south, the sheep huddled together in the snow. Green shoots of winter wheat sprouted from the rich, central pampas. Wealthy landowners followed regional cattle shows, and farmhands pitched steers' vertebrae at a stake in a game called taba...
Twice since 1900 the Hawaiian sugar industry has been seriously threatened by bugs: 1) the sugar-cane leaf hopper was brought under control by parasites imported from New Guinea, Australia and China; 2) the anomola beetle was eventually laid low by a bug from Manila. A dramatic victory was won over the voracious avocado mealy bug, a native of Mexico. One of his old enemies was brought over from Mexico, and now both bug and parasite have disappeared...
...walk away cane" equipped with a suction cup to hold the stick vertical while the stroller walks away...