Word: harvestable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BITTER HARVEST (313 pp.)-Edited by Edmund Stillman, introduction by François Bondy-Praeger...
Magnificent Harvest. Greeted by President Giovanni Gronchi and a 101-cannon salute, De Gaulle, a paunchy but majestic figure, made his triumphant way through the cheering streets of Milan. The French Tricolor fluttered from windows; there were Arches of Triumph made out of flowers, and at least one made out of cake. At Magenta, De Gaulle inspected the 4th Regiment of the plumed Italian Bersaglieri, whose predecessors fought there a century ago. Near Solferino, he and President Gronchi lunched at a villa where Napeleon III and Victor Emmanuel gloated over a victory banquet that had been set for the Emperor...
...blood of your soldiers, which flowed in waves here," blared De Gaulle's voice over a thousand Lombardy loudspeakers, "and the blood of ours went to raise a double and magnificent harvest: the independence of Italy and the Latin brotherhood...
Where does the bumper harvest come from...
...million tons of grain, as claimed, but only 30. There had been, said the People's Daily, "little, if any, increase'' in output over 1958 because of "impractical, inefficient and dangerous" close planting. In some places, added China Youth grimly, there had been no harvest...