Word: grains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bitter cold of Manchuria great things were about to happen this week. Squads of police had searched every house in Changchung and confiscated 3,000 rifles and 150,000 rounds of ammunition. Carloads of grain arrived to be distributed to 30,000 poor families while arrangements were made to house 4,000 homeless free. A guard of 5,000 troops was set round the still incomplete Imperial City. In an open courtyard a few handpicked correspondents saw court dignitaries in dragon gowns and fur hats with jeweled buttons bow low to the ground before a stuffed dummy on a lacquered...
...half dollars per ton shipped on the overhead and capital costs. If we add to this the fact that it would not be profitable for ocean-going vessels to be routed through to the middle West because of their lower paying capacity than the lake boats, that the Canadian grain trade which would be sixty per cent of the marine commerce concerned, we can see that the waterway would be not only a great debit to the American taxpayer, but a very small benefit to the Middle Western shipper...
...Chase's preference for this type of teacher relates to the second point he makes, that the President is a scientist, and therefore a little at sea among humane studies. Of this one must say that there might be a grain of truth in it, but probably is not. A scientist could be in error on the matter, but the error would not be the one Mr. Chase thinks he sees. It is not that research is valuable to a teacher in science and unnecessary to a teacher in the humanities, but that it should be pursued in a different...
...country never knew such a harvest as that of 1933!" exulted the Dictator's official Moscow newsorgan Izvestia last week. Russians safely harvested, according to Izvestia, more grain than in any previous year in Soviet or Tsarist times, a grand and overflowing total of 89,800,000 metric tons (3,323,000.000 bushels). In wheat, again according to Izvestia, Russian production was nearly double that of the U. S. in 1933 and almost equal to the 1915 U. S. wheat bumper of bumpers...
...incontestable and undeniable that in connection with this mass starvation there were fearful accompaniments typical of all mass starvations-including even cannibalism. "These lives could easily have been saved. While this starvation tragedy was taking place in the Soviet Union, other lands overseas were suffering from a superfluity of grain. World conferences engaged themselves with the problem of a cut in the production of grain. Huge quantities of foodstuffs were destroyed. Within a short space of time this surplus foodstuff could have been shipped to the starvation areas in steamers which, meanwhile for lack of cargo, were rotting away...