Word: grained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cross Sand River in a small boat. The current is very strong, the water yellow and dirty. . . . Here we missionaries can live only in hiding. Here are many churches, but only a few which are not Red schools, assembly halls, headquarters, or depots for grain confiscated from the people. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon we arrive at the den of the Reds. The sick Father, a Chinese secular priest, is lying on his bed, pale and exhausted. The village Christians tell me that the Father is spiritually rather than physically sick...
This was ludicrous proof of a new jumpiness in the nation's grain exchanges and their acute sensitivity to everything Washington did - or said. Nor was the jumping in only one direction. After Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson disclosed that Japan needed an "unexpectedly large" amount of grain, December wheat soared to $3.20¼ a bushel, the highest in 30 years. Cash oats reached their highest price ($1.37 a bushel) in the 100 years of Board of Trade history...
...Accepted the retirement, as head of the Citizens Food Committee, of Soapman Charles Luckman, whose razzle-dazzle promotions had counted for little in actual food savings but whose noisy rousing of public interest had helped get promises from distillers, bakers, poultrymen and others to cut grain consumption by 100 million bushels...
...month, when they threshed their wheat, they held back as much as they could. Last week, with the crop trickling slowly to the docks, the dollar-minded Argentine government weakened, agreed to pay farmers 24? more a bushel, plus a further 24? a bushel if they would deliver the grain before July...
Legs Visible. On the broad boulevards of the Argentine capital last week, many a piropo was whispered, for spring, although a bit late, had finally come. The dry weather had ill portents for the grain crop, but if Porteños were worried, they did not show it. The city's parks, well shaded with ombú, palm, ceiba, and shiny-leafed magnolias, were crowded with lovers, fashionable ladies with fashionable dogs, plain people out for a stroll. Many a piropeador audibly admired the spring styles which spurned the New Look and kept legs before the male eye. Buenos...