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...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...
...important new fact in the China puzzle is that Chinese policy, bursting out of its beleaguered mountain fortresses, has physically arrived at the Great Wall. Beyond lies Manchuria - steel mills, huge reserves of iron ore, coal and magnesite, pulpwood, rich farmland - all the prizes for which the statesmen and economists have yearned. Of immediate importance, destitution or prosperity in Shanghai depends upon getting coal from the North...
...many Zombies were already in action was not yet known. But it was known that some were attached to the Algonquin Regiment. And when the Regiment was given the job of taking the German village of Veen, the Zombies got their chance. They had to advance over flat farmland, then subdue the German defenders house by house, barn by barn, pigsty by pigsty. It took three days, and one reporter called the battle "a double-header dose of hell." Even after the village was taken, it had to be combed for mines, for it was nastily booby-trapped. One Canadian...
...Amiable, grey-haired Frances ("Fannie") Bryson of the New Orleans Item selected Our Daily Bread, a heavily stylized landscape of Deep South farmland at sundown, replete with wheeling buzzards and eroding soil. The artist: Mississippian John McCrady...