Word: flax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other peasants were doing throughout Russia: fighting a desperate battle of food. The 1942 harvest was in full swing. In southern Russia wheat-threshing machines hummed within earshot of tank battles. Near Stalingrad harvesters toiled around the clock to bring in ripened grain before the Nazi blight grew closer. Flax fields near Kalinin, rye fields around Kuibyshev, the great grain fields waving across the U.S.S.R.'s broad fertile land between northern forest and southern desert into the heart of Asia, all were black with hurrying harvesters. Thousands of new nurseries were opened to free mothers for tractor-driving...
...will overtake cotton; peanuts have already outstripped rye. Soybeans, peanuts and flaxseed, grown mostly for their oil, now replace the coconut, palm and linseed oil imported by the tankerful before the war. But soybeans also make top-notch fodder and Henry Ford has even made a soybean plastic automobile. Flax makes linen; peanuts make tasty, vitamin-rich soldier rations...
...labor trouble." He has a closed A.F. of L. shop in his 800-man shipbuilding plant in Duluth, a closed C.I.O. shop in his nearby Klearflax Linen Looms, Inc. (which not only makes linen rugs but, for three years, has enriched itself with a new process for treating coarse flax fiber for cigaret paper). What's more, he believes the closed shop is the best way for an employer to avoid "a fighting, quarreling type of labor leadership...
...Washington there was not even a whisper about what the new order could do to recalcitrant Argentina. But everyone who wanted to look could see two interesting sidelights to U.S. import control: 1) agricultural Argentina has relatively little to export that the U.S. really needs (mostly hides, flax, linseed oil), and of all good neighbors, she has the most that the U.S. can do without; 2) Argentina also has an important merchant fleet of her own, has to that extent been independent of U.S. ships and control. With full U.S. priorities on imports, if Argentina wants...
...crop which she exported before the war; the rest Peru sells to her neighbors. The U.S. will not try to import its purchase, but will leave it in Peru. As its part of the bargain, Peru agrees to try to reduce her cotton acreage, substituting non-surplus crops like flax, rice, beans. For every 1% change in cotton acreage after this year, the U.S. price to Peru will move 1½% in the opposite direction. Just to check up, aerial photographs will be taken of Peru's cotton region...