Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: The paragraph [TIME, Feb. 1] referring to wheat and cotton would indicate that in view of surplus on hand, wheat and cotton should not be grown this year. Such an argument omits such factors as these: Many wheat growers can grow nothing else owing to climatic conditions. Many wheat growers produce as a part of rotation, which they do not wish to upset. While there is an overall surplus of wheat, there is an acute shortage of some needed varieties. In view of postwar needs, the surplus on hand is not excessive. There are similar qualifications in the care...
...middle-aged Negro chief cook, on a ship torpedoed at night, was apparently knocked out by the explosion, finally struggled into his life belt in the dark, found his way to the deck, got into a lifeboat. Said he: "My head began to grow very, very large and I couldn't sit up and I commenced to throw up in the boat." His head felt "as large as a chair." Later he had hand tremors, a "pendulum pain" in the left side of his head, wrist weakness, stiff hands with palms that felt very thick. After treatment on Long...
...bell and settled down for an evening with their dreams. They opened the new seed catalogues with trembling fingers, drank in the intoxicating colors of beet and carrot, rolled the poetry over on their tongues. While winter winds whistled outside, they luxuriated in a gentle world where all tomatoes grow to unblemished perfection, where eight-inch cucumbers are midgets, where every brussels sprout is a sonnet and bugs are never seen...
...fevers of China creep into bodies which exist day after day on 24 oz. of rice. From this rice the heroes of China have to draw their fats, vitamins and carbohydrates. Only the northern troops of provident General Hu Tsung-nan have any health, for he made his men grow their own greens to add to their scant rations...
...question rose to plague the U.S. last week. The speed with which the draft will soon strip the nation of its young men was now apparent (see above). The manpower pinch was already sorely felt by factory and farms; food rationing was destined to grow stricter by the month...