Word: grains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quail Stuffers. To fatten quail for market, Italian and Polish gaveurs (bird stuffers) work in Paris market-hall cellars, chewing up grain and fruit into a pap which they let the quail eat from their mouths. The pecking quail abrade the gaveurs' lips, noses, chins. The peckmarks become infected, ulcerated; the gaveurs are miserable, sometimes die. ... So reported the Journal of the American Medical Association, ever on the alert for new occupational diseases...
...opposition to the Government's grain collecting campaign" (TIME, Oct. 28), 50 "kulaks" (rich peasants) were executed in various parts of the Soviet Union. This crime of crimes is committed in three ways: 1) by failing to sow all one's grain fields (a shameful hotbed of this vice is the district of Kuba, where only 4% of the fields were sown last Spring); 2) by refusing to sell grain to the Government collector at the price fixed in Moscow; 3) by inciting others to such "opposition...
...White House looked stock traders for some word of hope as the market slumped. The President's word: "The fundamental business of the country ... is on a sound and prosperous basis. ... A temporary drop in grain prices in sympathy with stock exchange prices usually happens...
This wheat loan will be doled out to coÖperatives through the National Farmers' Grain Corporation, organization of which was definitely completed last week...
...fairy tales, pounced on the big book, retreated to an armchair, buried his nose. Soon, perhaps, Boy-King Mihai was reading the story of Dwarf-King Gleamlet, getting ideas about Kingship from the tale of how Royal Gleamlet dealt with Whisk, the field rat, who had stolen his grain...