Word: canings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Assistant Philippine Sugar Administrator gravely warned of a probable sugar shortage in 1946. The jungle was closing in on many sugar plantations abandoned during Jap occupation. The midget railways that hauled cane from the fields to the mills had been carried away by the Japs...
...Denver, Rabbi Samuel Rose, 89, received word that his son, Major General Maurice Rose, had been killed while surrendering to the Germans on March 30 (TIME, April 9). Rabbi Rose sat down heavily, grasped his cane, spoke from a Scripture-filled heart...
Best known of these industrial microorganisms is yeast, whose appetite for the carbohydrates in beets, sugar cane, wood, and other fibrous vegetable matter made possible the production in 1944 of about 638 million gallons of alcohol-grain and wood. But the yeasts are only one group of the microbic multitude able to perform specific jobs. Bacteria resembling the bacilli of human ailments and molds like mildew have also been put to work in industry...
...tests and a limited amount will be available for civilian experiments this year. Against weeds, the No. 1 enemy, which cost farmers as much ($3,000,000,000) as all other pests combined, the prospects are even brighter. Some promising weapons: ¶ A flamethrower. Used mainly on cotton, sugar cane and corn plantations, this tractor-drawn implement spurts a 2,200° flame along the ground between rows, burns off weeds without harming the stouter stalks of crop plants, costs only one-tenth as much as hoeing. ¶ Calcium cyanamide. This chemical, long used as fertilizer, has recently proved...
...Existence of Evil. Thurber is as sensitively aware of the existence of evil -i.e., of stupidity and cowardice and self-love-as any American writer of his time. The knowledge pervades his lightest work; and in one small corner of his world, in such stories as The Cane in the Corridor and The Breaking Up of the Winship, evil unmasks itself in grim tragedy...