Word: grower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plants. The farmer had to work twice as hard with broken-down machinery which was irreplaceable, not 8 but 14 or 16 hours a day, his sons in the service, his daughters in the defense plants, his wife on the tractor; only his dog was loafing. . . . Compelling the wheat grower to sell his wheat at an arbitrary price is as unfair as forcing union labor to work at an arbitrary wage of say 80? an hour...
Carlos A. Arosemena '49--Roberta Grower (Wellesley...
...Guffey, who had twice ridden into the Senate on Franklin Roosevelt's vote appeal, now hoped that the state ticket would help carry him through. For a candidate for Governor, the Democrats settled on John Stanley Rice, former Air Forces colonel, a mild, well-to-do Gettysburg apple grower whose political star had never risen higher than the state Senate. For Secretary of Internal Affairs they found Colonel Rice a G.I. running mate: Philadelphia's blind hero Al Schmid, former Marine sergeant...
Roosevelt picked the Chicago lawyer and dahlia-grower for Secretary of the Interior. Ickes had dared to hope that he might be made Commissioner of Indian Affairs...
...take for granted the interdependence ... of the wheat farmer of the Dakotas, the cotton grower of the Carolinas or the market gardener of California [with] the miner in Pennsylvania and the manufacturer in New York. . . . The interdependence of the world economy is less apparent. But it is quite as real...