Word: harvester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Raffles turned homewards. Of the five children his wife had borne him in these years, only one had survived the scourges of malaria and dysentery. Worn out and sick, he chartered a ship, loaded it with the products of some 20 years' research in the East-a priceless harvest of botanical and zoological specimens, cartological and climatic studies, thousands of pages of native histories and racial researches. One day out, the ship took fire and sank, a total loss...
...donning masks-and going naked on the beach (see cut). As the hot spell wore on, thermometers registered highs of 84 in Washington, 82 in Philadelphia, 81 in Boston, 77 in Chicago, 85 in Memphis. Midwestern farmers mopped their foreheads and cursed the humidity which was delaying the corn harvest. Mississippians sighed and put off their hog killing. Thousands of city folk got out their lawn mowers-the grass was growing again...
Meanwhile full winter descended, without warning, on the Rocky Mountain states. It began snowing in Utah, Nevada and Montana, and the worst blizzard in a decade roared down on Colorado. Hunters were trapped, cars stalled, trains delayed and the intermountain sugar-beet harvest was almost completely disrupted...
...been for 500,000 tons of foodstuffs imported by U.S. occupation authorities last summer, many Japanese would have starved. But farmers estimated that the current rice harvest would be 57,000,000 koku* (a koku is just over five bushels). Effective Nov. 1, the Government would increase the daily rice ration to a full pint, highest since the early days...
...trade in German war prisoners. . . . Now, on what ground has the British Government-a Labor Government!-justified this brutal business? And why has the public for so long so complacently accepted the Government's policy? "Without the labor of the war prisoners, we shall never be able to harvest our crops." True, perhaps, but what different justification did pagan Rome give for the slave system which finally did so much to destroy...