Word: canings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might long ago have supplied the U.S. with all the sugar it needs but for one stubborn fact−sugar-beet seeds grow in clusters. From the clustered seeds grow clustered plants, which must be thinned by hand. The enormous labor required has given the production advantage to sugar cane and made the beet-sugar industry a notoriously uneconomic enterprise, heavily subsidized by low wages and high tariffs. Supporting this $100,000,000 industry has cost the U.S. people about $300,000,000 a year in direct subsidies and sugar prices upped by tariffs...
...India's capital last week, "Vinegar Joe'' Stilwell sat rigidly in his rattan-cane armchair, long fingers playing with his favorite cigaret holder, eyes almost shut. Curtly he replied to his critics: the Ledo Road fulfills two U.S. objectives: 1) to get at least some supplies to blockaded China; 2) to set up a situation in which Japs are killed...
...tails and stood affably in St. George's parish house while admirers thronged around in celebration of his 50th anniversary. A delegation of Negroes and whites had come all the way from his native Erie. The Erie Club of New York sent him a silver-banded cane. Fellow parishioners presented a $1,500 check. New York's Bishop William T. Manning made a speech. The choir broke into Burleigh's deft, contrapuntal choral ode, Ethiopia's Paean of Exaltation. In a baritone that was still vibrant, Harry Burleigh himself sang Go Down Moses...
Russell is infectiously cheerful. He does not use a dog or cane. "On a quiet day," explains Coach Eddie O'Donnell, "Bob can hear a tree." He likes to fish and plays poker for profit with Braille cards. Some weekends he hitchhikes from New Haven to Manhattan...
...Bluffs, Iowa, whose left leg was blown off by a land mine in Tunisia. Veteran Hendricks told worried Congressmen a few things: soldiers are concerned about their future and "what Congress is doing for them"; unless they are cared for, there will be another bonus march. Leaning on his cane, Veteran Hendricks spoke with emphasis: "The men in the foxholes are beginning to wonder what they are fighting...