Word: canings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...place along the way we passed a band of Scottish Highlanders marching toward internment, blowing lustily all the while on bagpipes. A monocled officer led them, sporting a cane in place of his saber. Not one face carried a shadow of sadness...
...Came To Dinner" is the funniest movie to come out of Hollywood since Charlie Chaplin abandoned his cane for a social consciousness. It's also so different and original that it's quite apt to gain the rather dubious distinction of being the herald of a new cycle of film comedies...
...large Tugwell has shown himself a cautious administrator. Puerto Rico's Legislature appropriated $7,000,000 to carry out Muñoz Marin's (and Tugwell's) pet project of buying up some 200,000 corporate-owned acres of sugar-cane lands, dividing them into tracts of 500 acres or less, then selling them to the hungry, landless jibaros on 40-year terms. So far, not a cent has been spent. Appraisers are still checking over two modest plantations whose owners offered to sell...
Even in midwinter, the land does not hold back its wealth. In Florida it is harvest season. Men & women in straw hats swarm over beanfields and sugar-cane plantations; trucks churn through fields to pick up oranges and grapefruit; the strawberry crop moves out by the carload; small farmers ride to town in wagons brimming with cucumbers, squash, eggplant. In Texas' Rio Grande Valley it is harvest time for grapefruit and cabbage, for tomatoes, spinach, broccoli, peppers, carrots and beets...
Liquor stills normally use neither cane syrup nor molasses; they use grain (mostly corn). This is plentiful, but expensive. To make alcohol profitable for the distillers, OPA last month raised the price ceiling from...