Word: grains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...artists worked and slept in their offices and a Chicago photocopy company worked overtime copying posters and exhibits, Luckman retired with reports to bone up on the problem of food. The problem was gigantic but simple. To save Europe, the U.S. had to ship 570,000,000 bushels of grain abroad. At the present rate of domestic consumption only 470,000,000 bushels would be available. The U.S. people had to save 100,000,000 bushels...
...behind schedule; some farmers were seeding dusty fields. There were no critical spots yet, but if the next week or ten days brought no rain, there might be. The rich wheat belt waited anxiously, almost as anxiously as the world's hungry people waited for U.S. grain...
...This week Kansans were asked by Governor Frank Carlson and the Kansas Council of Churches to donate grain (or dollars to buy grain) to Europe. Already on the way to hunger areas were more than 10,000 bushels of wheat, donated in similar church-sponsored campaigns in Oklahoma and Texas...
...pretty bad pictures these days without half trying. But almost any one of them, no matter how atrocious, contains some little twist of plot, a line or two, or some bit character perhaps, that goes against the general grain of inanity. All this is usually true, but Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer this week has made it all too clear that the exception proves the rule. For, no matter how hard you may try, you can't possibly find anything about "Desire Mc" that merits praise of any sort...
Reduced liquor consumption could also be foreseen in Luckman's declaration that the distilled spirits industry will be asked to shut down on the use of grain for 60 days in addition to the 50 percent curtailment already promised by 60 percent of the industry...