Word: harvestable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night, blew up the urinal; the Government, with mistaken zeal, quartered troops on Clochemerle and precipitated a real riot; the old maid went frankly, starkly crazy. Even then there was no telling what might have happened if a terrible thunderstorm had not descended on Clochemerle, ruined the grape harvest, cooled off everybody's passions...
...days earlier General Goring had come out with still another scheme. He announced that kindergartens would be set up all over the country to look after Nazi moppets so that mothers might help with the harvest. During summer vacations university students, mobilized as a special "land service" corps, will also work in the fields...
...harvest of bitter strikes which General Motors rasped this winter started some second thought in its councils, which led to the dismissal of the agency. This public pillory of one company must be impelling the others to reconsider the wisdom of bossing the workmen by fear and distrust, for the cost of spies is great and the increment from their use is disastrous. If it is important that the executives know what labor is up to, better systems can be devised to find out; many factories have them already. The half million dollars a year that, for example, General Motors...
President Roosevelt's plea for crop insurance comes as a pleasant indication that the long-heralded farm program is not an idle promise, and that something will at least be attempted before the next harvest period. Never has assistance to the farmer been so vital to the welfare of the whole nation as at the present time. With returning industrial activity and the mid-winter flood disasters combining to make many a farmer's prospect seem proportionately gloomier than that of his countrymen, some measure is inevitable, and the one suggested by the President appears logical and sound...
...production of cocoa in West Africa began to fall off relatively last year. On the British Gold Coast, whose Accra beans make up the largest proportion of the crop, an early season drought deprived trees of needed moisture. Cocoa figures are notoriously hard to get but when harvest time came on the Gold Coast in October, crop estimate for that area dropped from 260,000 ton to 235,000. In Brazil, whose bahia crop is the world's second largest, plantations were kept up better during cocoa's dark days, and total world shipments actually rose from...