Word: grains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...measure being discussed is allocation of critical materials; e.g., halting the use of steel for beer cans. Over that measure hangs the threat of a black market. Another idea is to give the Government the authority to step into the nation's farms and set aside grain for overseas shipment. That expedient will not control grain prices unless the Government also fixes the price at which the producers must sell...
...food-surplus area, which the three Western zones were not. But now Russian-zone Germans are as hungry as those in the West. Near Bitterfeld, townfolk were using their Sunday off to glean the few stray wheat stalks left in the stubble of a wheatfield. They grind the grain by hand and make a sort of bread. Some, unable to wait, were eagerly breaking the stalk heads open and eating as they gleaned. It left a grayish paste of kernel shell around their lips...
Last spring the grain collections from German farmers in the British and U.S. zones were only 32% of quota. The Russians, who know how to exact grain from Soviet collective farms, have used their time-tried techniques much more successfully. At the village of Mildensee, near Dessau, a lad of 16, so small that he looked only ten, told me: "The Russians take 80% of our food." His father interrupted: "No, no, they take only half or a little more...
...Four peasants in this village have been fined-but none have yet been put in jail. If you lack money to pay the fine, then you must pay in animals. In villages near Mildensee some peasants last year were jailed for up to six months for not meeting their grain delivery quotas in full. But we in Mildensee were able to meet our quotas. So they gave us bigger quotas this year. Now we have had drought, and I do not know how we can live...
...doorman guarding the gallery on the seventh floor of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange began turning visitors away. Inside, jampacked spectators looked down to the trading floor where traders were clustering, half an hour early, around the octagonal steps of the coarse-grains pit. Since September 1943 there had been ceilings on oats and barley and trading had all but died. Now a free market had returned...