Word: grains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Egypt is to Islam about what the U. S. is to Catholic Rome-an outland which provides large sums of money but gets modest recognition from the high church hierarchy. Until 1926 an annual train of Egyptian Mohammedan pilgrims made its way to Mecca, bringing gifts of money, grain and a newly woven black brocade carpet to cover Mecca's sacred, silver-incrusted Black Stone, a meteorite supposed to have fallen in Adam's time. To protect the Egyptian pilgrims from Ibn Saud's marauding Wahabi warriors went each year a company of Egyptian soldiers...
When Huxley's son wrote his distinguished father's official Life and Letters, he thought he had winnowed all the posthumous grain from the stack of his father's papers, but apparently he overlooked a youthful diary. Grandson Julian, also a biologist, found it after his father's death, last week published it with an introduction and notes. Huxley's Diary of the Voyage oj H. M. S. Rattlesnake, like Darwin's Diary of the Voyage...
...office." "But the newspapers will publish that he did exhibit them on the floor," insisted Senator Byrnes, continuing with the Republican release: "Sarcastically-I can hear him now-Sarcastically Dickinson referred to the Roosevelt cure of slaughtering food animals, restricting the growing of grain. Then he said: 'Every gangster, every counterfeiter, every dope peddler now incarcerated in a Federal penitentiary not only lives better'-The writer of the Republican National Committee put these words in-he said with studied deliberation. . . ." Blushing to the roots of his white hair, Senator Dickinson made for the door...
...when their terms are up. Stalin has no dictatorial powers; he is just an exceptionally able comrade. Censorship of the printed word, called "political editing," never annoys the politically educated. What Chamberlin (Russia's Iron Age) calls the famine of 1932, Author Strong prefers to characterize as a "grain shortage" attributable largely to kulak sabotage. Soviet women are all equal with men, are found in the front ranks of every enterprise. The Uzbek factory girls celebrate their emancipation in song...
Within a few days the shrewd crop estimators in the big Chicago grain firms announced forecasts averaging 537,000,000 bu. for the 1936 U. S. winter wheat harvest. Together with a spring wheat crop of perhaps 200,000,000 bu., that would put the U. S. on an export basis once again, since domestic needs run around 630,000,000 bu. annually. And steady selling drove down the price of wheat on the Chicago Board of Trade from $1 per bu. early last month to a low of 93¼? last week...