Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because their dry paddies were golden with ripening grain, Japanese entered enthusiastically last week into their Thanksgiving day, Kannamesai, which dates back to 28 B.C. Emperor Hirohito donned gaudy ceremonial robes, cleansed his hands with holy water and reported to his imperial ancestors on the new crop. Then he placed samples on the Shinto altar: a few fruits and vegetables, a bottle of sake, and a small box of new rice, harvested with his own hands...
...land (some 67 acres), a superior four-room wooden house and possessing three oxen, a couple of cows and a horse (the local equivalent of a Chrysler), Nicolás was much better off than most of his fellow colonos. Yet after giving 53% of his sugar crop to the central (mill) in return for grinding it, and paying for wages, fertilizer, etc., he would have about $64 left of the $4,200 his 1946 crop was supposed to be worth. In the slow, throaty speech of the Cuban countryman, Nicolás summed up his problem: "We would...
...want of castor oil, used as brake and shock absorber fluid, automakers could not roll out all the cars they had hoped to deliver. For want of nails to make curing racks. Georgia farmers this year were threatened with the loss of half of their $57,000,000 peanut crop...
...made the overall shortages worse by cutting off what supplies of materials there were. Worst bungle was in meat (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). But there were others. Example: when Brazil's castor bean growers raised their price, the U.S. held firmly to its domestic ceiling until much of the crop was sold elsewhere. Had the bureaucrats learned their lesson? Last week, they showed once more that they hadn...
...Dark Mirror (Universal-International) begins with a shadow-menaced shot of a corpse, then plunges headlong into a feverish chase after a knife-wielding paranoiac killer. Made with considerable style, it is a more diverting whodunit than most of the current crop of movies that mix homicide with psychiatry. Thanks to some suave legerdemain in its direction and playing, it even gives the impression of being a better movie than...