Word: grains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city's 200,000 acres of land and its buildings are valued at more than $21,000,000,000. It includes 841,716 parcels of taxable property, 458,597 private homes, 1,118 grain elevators, 141,808 apartment buildings. Owning real estate is not a paying business in New York City, what with taxes, oversupply (particularly in office space), maintenance...
...Siberia through France, was advancing by successive mobilizations as yellowing grainfields quickly ripened northward. To war-anxious Europe this peaceful mobilization meant a kind of armistice. For while peasants in uniform fight Europe's wars, they could hardly be set to fighting until they had got in the grain. And since even modern mechanized armies still travel on their stomachs, no nation could well afford to risk losing its grain supply by attacking another nation during harvest. Though Nazis defied this law of Europe's military history by keeping close to 2,000,000 men under arms...
...Pleased too were peasants in Rumania where mild warm spring rains (in contrast to most of Europe's cold wet spring) plumped the grain heads for the second bumper Rumanian wheat crop in two years...
...Russia, whose modern industrial towns are still only islands in a green sea of wheat and rye, Uzbegs, Georgians, Crimeans, Ukrainians and Russians prepared to march upon the 40,000,000 acres of grain. Despite insufficient snowfalls, which hurt winter wheat, wheat and rye crops though poor in quality were about average in yield. This year for the first time half of Russia's grain was to be harvested by combine, but as by June 11 Pravda and Izvestia reported, only 46% of the combines had received needed repairs. Spare parts were missing, experienced mechanics and drivers lacking, while...
...Kingdom whose oil and grain Germany covets...