Word: harvestable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dusty bayou country of southern Louisiana last week, the sugar cane stood 10 ft. high. It was time for harvest, but on the huge sugar plantations many of the harvesters failed to report for work. Each morning before sunup, some 2,000 (an estimated 10% of the labor force) gathered in Masonic lodges and Burial Society halls from the outskirts of New Orleans to the Atchafalaya River to sing hymns, pray, sip coffee and idle away the day. After generations of precarious existence on the big plantations, the cane workers were out on an organized strike. Their wages (minimums...
...lived on sea food, picking up clams and oysters. Later, man largely deserted the sea as a source of food. Now, with the land filling up with people, the sea looks good again. In Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Dr. Francis Joseph Weiss, Austrian-born chemist, tells how man might harvest the sea's bumper crops...
...original plants diminishes by nine-tenths at each eating. So when a human fisherman catches a fine codfish, each pound of its flesh represents about 100,000 lbs. of plants that grew in the sea. This process is wasteful, thinks Dr. Weiss. Man would do better to harvest the lower, broader stages of the food pyramid...
Said Paris' Franc-Tiretir: "No one is really an enemy of wine-in France-but it is hard to ask Frenchmen to drink more than their bellyful for the sole purpose of draining off the harvest surplus." Frenchmen, already the world's biggest consumers of alcoholic beverages (seven gals, per person per year, on a pure alcohol basis, v. one gal. per American), drank about 1.2 billion gals, of wine last year, 75% of what they put away in prewar years. Yet wine production was about the same as before the war (1.9 billion gals.), almost a third...
Last week Premier Joseph Laniel issued a set of decrees designed to put the industry back on its feet. To keep only the best grades of wine on the market, growers will be compelled to turn over 12% of their harvest to the government, at a low price, for distillation into industrial alcohol. If there is still overproduction by 1958, the government will force the winemakers to uproot a percentage of their vines each year until output matches sales. As one expert summed it up: "The French wine industry is now at the crossroads, and the question is quality...