Word: harvestable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were the pictures shown along with The Plow That Broke the Plains in Washington's Mayflower last fortnight: an excerpt from The Triumph of the Will, directed for Adolf Hitler by Leni Riefenstahl (TIME, Feb. 7); an institutional reel called Midi dealing with the French railways; a Russian Harvest Festival which depicts the Ukraine as a merry place; Color Box and The Face of Britain, respectively glorifying the British Post Office and the social effect of water power...
...After a gilded first night (TIME, Jan. 1, 1934), the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe performed time & again to half-empty houses. Last week the troupe was back in Manhattan for a two week stay at the Metropolitan Opera House. This time the bread and salt had brought an abundant harvest. There was a great clamor for tickets, a queue waiting for standing room. Persistent applause greeted the dancers who could spin with such grace, leap with such ease...
Within a few days the shrewd crop estimators in the big Chicago grain firms announced forecasts averaging 537,000,000 bu. for the 1936 U. S. winter wheat harvest. Together with a spring wheat crop of perhaps 200,000,000 bu., that would put the U. S. on an export basis once again, since domestic needs run around 630,000,000 bu. annually. And steady selling drove down the price of wheat on the Chicago Board of Trade from $1 per bu. early last month to a low of 93¼? last week...
This would be a fact if at this time there had been perfected a thoroughly practical cotton picker and production of same in the first season was sufficient to harvest an appreciable part of the cotton crop together with a distributing organization capable of throwing the machine on the market to skeptical farmers over night, but such is certainly not the case...
...what faith the Untouchables should turn for "equality of status and treatment," Dr. Ambedkar did not hasten to explain. Since he was reported dallying with Mohammedanism, Christian leaders in India exhibited pious skittishness. Declared the National Christian Council of India: ''The harvest is ripe for the gathering in many quarters and we urge that volunteer bands be sent forth to gather...