Word: harvestable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second-hand crate owned and flown by George Parker, 22-year-old student at Northwestern University. Pilot Parker's job was to stir up the cold air which settles in the lowland, thus save the potatoes from frost. If he brings Farmer Erickson's crop through to harvest unblighted. Pilot Parker will collect $400, enough to send him back to college this autumn. If frost strikes, Parker gets nothing...
...Ortonville, Minn, harvest festival last year Mrs. L. W. Lindstrom munched hard for the women's corn-eating championship, finished second to Pauline Lewis who set a women's record of 25 ears. Ed ("Korn King") Kottwitz won the men's championship with a world's record of 37 ears. Last week at the festival, with two dozen waitresses rushing supplies from steaming boilers chocked with Golden Bantam corn, Mrs. Lindstrom, 71 and every tooth her own, beat Pauline Lewis, 22, by one ear with a new women's record of 45 ears. Ed Kottwitz...
Normally at the harvest season East Prussia imports laborers from adjoining Poland. This year 24,000 Prussian unemployed have been bundled into trains, shipped across the Polish Corridor in freight cars of the German State Railways, and put to work in East Prussia. Making much of this achievement Premier Göring has encouraged Berlin newspapers to print stories about how he and his protege, Governor Erich Koch of East Prussia, have there "performed the miracle of ending unemployment...
...China and its loosely subservient ally, the Canton Government in South China, is an area of great lakes, marshes and mountains pullulating with bandit Communist armies. Harassed from all sides last week, the tattered, hungry Communists saw to the east the fat fields of Fukien Province just before the harvest, beyond that the sea whence come their smuggled guns. Some 40,000 of them boiled down from the mountains, swept a small local army out of their way. Up to meet them swaggered Canton's 19th Route Army, famed for its defense of Shanghai last year against the Japanese...
...mountains distort its surface. Its winding rivers are as precisely parallel as its level roads. The grain in its flat fields waves as if marcelled. Its citizens lead lives of regularity. Last week Kansans had as great a shock as if the Rocky Mountains had suddenly risen from their harvest fields...