Word: farmland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bloody revolution begun by mild little Francisco Madero in 1910 cracked the feudal system and released three-quarters of a million peasants in mud-floor serfdom from the grip of a few hundred landowning families. But the revolutionaries themselves lived on and despoiled the country, which never had enough farmland (only 12% potentially arable...
Harvardman Merwin knows the value of gossip for a farmland paper (two-thirds of the Pantagraph's circulation is outside of Bloomington-pop. 34,000), keeps 95 reporters, mostly women, feeding it in from as many Illinois small towns. But his local reporting doesn't stop with box socials and births. He once used the Pantagraph to promote one of the best art shows ever held in the Midwest, proved that Illinois farmers by the thousand would pay two bits to see an El Greco...
...sharp stop. On a trip to the Lake District she met and later married William Heelis, a gentle, retiring country lawyer. Mr. Potter was furious, but from then on, says Author Lane, Beatrix "deliberately buried Miss Potter of Bolton Gardens and became another person." She invested her royalties in farmland, flung all her energies into raising sheep. She invented a trap for catching maggot-flies, wrote knowledgeably to friends about housewifery and cooking ("Wm. prefers blue smoke before the bacon is laid on the frying pan"). As the years passed, her gentle, shy face assumed something of the granite features...
...Kyoto on Lake Biwa. It hoped to harvest 120,000 Ibs. (some eight servings for every U.S. soldier in Japan and Korea) of fresh vegetables a week by next spring. Reason for the project: Japanese soil has been heavily fertilized with night soil for centuries; vegetables grown in such farmland are fresh but may harbor disease-producing bacteria like the typhoid bacillus...
...American came to India last week not to lecture but to listen. In the famine-stricken provinces of Madras and Mysore, Herbert Hoover rode over chokingly dusty roads past rocky farmland and dried-up streams. The coal-black natives crowded around his car. "One family here lives on four to eight annas' (8? to 16?) worth of grain a week," they told him. "We are now eating only one meal every two days...