Word: harvester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...harvesting the biggest crop in history. The wheat harvest would yield more than 1.2 billion bushels. Dusty trucks were rolling along the roads with corn which is expected to total a record-breaking 3.5 billion bushels (previous record: 3.2 billion in 1946). Man and nature had collaborated in a great triumph...
...press should stop justifying Wallace by presenting the public with his pathological history, which is too obvious to be interesting. It is vital to draw the parallel between this character and those who eventually reaped a murderous harvest for their countries after taking refuge within a liberal constitution . . . You must show him, and prove him, to be what he is-primarily an opportunistic politician who is giving aid and comfort to those who are pledged to destroy our system of government...
...months of steady rains sent, the swollen Min River plunging through Fukien province, drowning a thousand people, flooding 50 towns. A million refugees crowded the highlands, mourning the loss of 80% of Fukien's rice harvest. Tungting Lake overflowed, ruining 50% of Hunan's rice. In Kiangsi Province, 60% of the rice was destroyed; in Kiangsu...
...poems of T. S. Eliot, they have driven down to Boston to see Man and Superman and hear Eliot lecture at Harvard. To study farming, and to earn a little spending money for other trips, they will bus to Aroostook County this fall to help with the potato harvest...
...Department also boosted the wheat harvest forecast 4% to 1,241,751,000 bushels, second biggest in history. Kansas City wheat men and railroaders scarcely needed to be told. One day last week 4,578 cars of wheat rolled in for unloading, 1,000 more than on the previous record...