Word: grains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their own back yards. Land-measuring commissioners were prowling around checking up on the small garden plots, on the collective farms, where peasants produce food for themselves. The wheat harvest dropped about one billion poods (602,000,000 bushels) below estimate. There was the usual 25% loss of grain between reaping and threshing, because the stalks lay in the fields for weeks, because too many combines were broken down. But this year both Dictator Stalin and Premier Molotov had said it could not happen again. It happened...
Back to Napoleon? To force Germany to fight on two fronts, to cut her off from the oil and grain fields of East Europe is vital to England and France. To do so they must help their allies in the East. Once war begins, they will be practically cut off from sending aid to Poland, which aims to fight a delaying war, retreating bloodily to Warsaw and the Vistula. If they are also cut off from Turkey, Rumania and Greece, they will not be able to use any of their strength to squeeze Germany between pincers...
...barbed wire fences closed forever the open range, and behind these fences developed a different economic and social order." Both panels are nine by 20 feet, painted in the standard Curry colors-reds for Oklahoma's dust and soil, gold for sunlight, green for far-off fields of grain. Curry considers them much finer than his Department of Justice murals, finished...
...result of new good management and the good luck of fine spring weather, a bumper wheat crop of seven to eight billion poods (4,213,183,333 to 4,815,066,666 bushels). The wheat is not yet cut and threshed, and there may be a big discrepancy between grain in the fields and grain harvested, for the Russian peasant is currently in the worst dither since the forcible collectivization of the land...
...Russian peasant is a stubborn lad, and all this made him extremely unhappy. His unhappiness may well have a withering effect on Russia's bumper wheat crop. For when Ivan is unhappy, as the Soviet Government learned during 1932, he sits and sulks and watches the grain go to the devil...