Word: harvester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dusty plains of Hungary white ox teams came in from the vineyards with colored ribbons around their horns, while peasants danced under rafters decorated with heavy bunches of ripe grapes. Switzerland, Germany and Spain prepared for a whole series of harvest festivals with bands, floats, dancing girls and red fire...
...barber, a violinist, a tailor, an undertaker, an escaped convict. They build shacks, plough the fields using manpower, a motorcycle, decrepit automobiles. When they first behold a seedling they exhibit naïve joy and the carpenter leads them in prayer. But before their crops are ready for harvest their larder is depleted. The convict saves the community by arranging for one of them to get a $500 reward for his apprehension. Then comes Drought. Gloomily John is about to go off with a wench who has joined the group, when he hears a sound which he knows means...
...HARVEST IN THE NORTH?James Lansdale Hodson?Knopf...
...families in Montana and the Dakotas in need of transplanting to better lands; total damage to date $5,000,000,000. Next day in the deeper drought country, the President rode past fields where cattle were munching the last dry straws of a crop that would never be harvested, drove over roads silted with the drifting topsoil of neighboring farms, passed signs which read, "You gave us beer. Now give us water." And, on -the speakers' stand at Devils Lake, leaning forward with his hands braced on the table holding microphones, he said in slow and sombre syllables: "I cannot...
...were not quite so bare as private observers had calculated (TIME, Aug 6). But cotton-land had shrunk below the gloomiest private guesses. And the misadventures of corn were a sensation. In a month, 500,000,000 bu. of corn had disappeared from U. S. fields and the 1934 harvest was officially estimated as 1,600,000,000 bu. as against 2,300,000,000 bu. last year. The price of corn jumped quickly to 88?...