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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clista Millspaugh, a chunky (127 lb.), (5 ft. 5 i in.) youngster (17 yr.) who lives on a farm at Mount Pleasant. Iowa, was in Chicago last week to recite her little speech. Recited she: "I eat all kinds of food we have on the farm and I get lots of work, play and sleep. I love to milk cows, and pitch hay, and ride horses, and play baseball and basketball...
During his stay in China the devout were shocked to learn that His Holiness is no ascetic. Though Tibetan Lamas consider it virtuous to go hungry and a sin to eat flesh or fish, the Panchen Lama feasted regularly in Nanking on chicken, beef, mutton and those expensive Chinese delicacies, sharks' fins and hot sea slugs...
...year to 18 months. . . . Crop reduction is ridiculous. At the present time we have an undersupply of milk, fruit, vegetables and meats. And prices of food are going to go so high that I don't know how the poor are going to pay for what they eat...
...escape such destruction, an Argentine locust could wing his way to the U. S., he would there find less wheat to eat than at any time in 50 years. If he crossed the Atlantic to Europe he would see slim pickings in the seared fields of France or by the banks of the Danube. And in Germany he would see crops so poor that people must eat potatoes once thrown to the pigs. In Russia the roar of 140,000 tractors hastily harvesting a premature crop, the shrill cries of village children scampering after the reapers to scoop up lost...
Italians want their macaroni made out of durum?a hard-kerneled wheat. There is not enough durum in all Manitoba to feed even the macaroni-eating Italians in the U. S., and not enough wheat of any kind growing in Italy to fill her normal wheat and flour consumption of 300,000,000 bu. Into U. S. mouths normally go more than 600,000,000 bu. of wheat but this year U. S. farmers can raise only a scant 484,000,000 bu. Germans, who eat nearly 200,000,000 bu., have not had enough water to raise...