Word: harvestable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hrer of the German people, Commander-in-Chief of the German Army, Navy & Air Force, Chancellor of the Third Reich, Herr Hitler reaped on that day at Munich the harvest of an audacious, defiant, ruthless foreign policy he had pursued for five and a half years. He had torn the Treaty of Versailles to shreds. He had rearmed Germany to the teeth? or as close to the teeth as he was able. He had stolen Austria before the eyes of a horrified and apparently impotent world...
...part, the greatest variable is the weather; and until technical instruments are radically improved, men and planes will surely come to grief. The weather is a basic factor in the creation of what is euphemistically known as the national dividend. It can harass a farmer, make or break his harvest; it can ruin an otherwise good haul of fishermen, or wash out incredibly expensive roadways. All this destruction could be mitigated with more research and less of the present guesswork...
Aching hunger, rather than lack of munitions, has become Leftist Spain's gravest problem. Leftists can point with pride that their troops have held their own for the last three months. Now Leftists are handicapped by this summer's poor harvest, the cutting in two of Leftist territory, the feeding of 3,000,000 refugees who fled before Rightist advances, difficulties of transportation, ceaseless bombing, sinking of food ships bound for Leftist harbors...
North Carolina in October is a land of quiet towns, paved roads busy with the traffic of harvest time, fields bright with yellow bitterweed, people warmed and sleepy in the last hot suns of fall. Last week the land, the people and the sky of a large part of North Carolina were elements in a Problem. The U.S. Army was at one of its periodic peacetime wars, and civilians for once were principals...
...were forbidden to leave Germany. All former officers and technicians of the air force were called to the colors. Doctors were required to register their vacation addresses with the police. Hundreds of private motor vehicles were rented or requisitioned and all German farm horses which had completed their harvest work were conscripted by the army. Non-military building projects as important as Munich's new subway were virtually suspended. If this was not mobilization, the French had no other name...