Word: corns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beside the Götterdämmerung thunders of the Russo-German War, the 80-hour campaign to achieve all these desirable things sounded like the popping of a little corn. Down either side the Caspian came the Cossacks-horsed, mechanized and propellered. Their western column rapidly took Tabriz; their eastern the port of Bandar Shah (see map). To the south the British crossed from Iraq and made sure of the richest single oil field in existence; their warships in the Persian Gulf squashed Iran's minuscule Navy, sinking two sloops, capturing seven Axis ships. Indian troops landed...
...Chrysler officials is the Chrysler Tank Arsenal (TIME, Jan. 20). They like to cite statistics on its vastness: five city blocks long and two wide . . . six and a half acres of window panes . . . 9,000 heavy machines, tools and fixtures installed . . . "here, just a year ago, stood a corn field." . . . Last week it was a whirring, clanking hive of millers, cutters, pressers and riveters (see cut). Eighty percent of the machines which Chrysler needs to step up its tank-production rate to 15 per day have already been installed. Meanwhile Chrysler has just received a big order...
...asked its farmers for more cotton and more wheat. Today, Claude Wickard's whole idea is to grow less cotton, less wheat and more food. He wants to make dairy products, poultry and vegetables basic crops, as important in the nation's economy as cotton, wheat, tobacco, corn and rice. He wants an over abundance of them because he is satisfied that the national income will grow up to buy it. He sees a chance to put the U.S. on a proper diet for the first time in all its history. He believes that "food will...
...requirements are gargantuan. To get 13,000,000,000 more pounds of milk dairy cows will have to be fed 100,000,000 more bushels of corn and feed grains than ever before...
...defense. That Martinique is defended only by an old washbasin of an aircraft carrier, the Béarn, and a first-rate light cruiser, the Emile Bertin, whose crews cried when they heard that France had capitulated to the Germans and who since then have hoed beans and corn ashore and bickered angrily about Vichy's waverings. He knows that the total French defending force comprises not more than 4,000 men, more than half native...