Word: harvester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years; happiness for a thousand." He predicted more than 7,100,000 tons of steel production this year, against 2,200,000 tons only four years ago. But in the fine print, not all was so rosy. He was significantly silent on last year's harvest and this year's crop prospects. He regretted "excessive wage increases" in 1956 but denied that that year had been one of "reckless advance." He admitted that a retrenchment had followed, but for those who weary of such economic jargon as saucering out of recession, Liu had a classic new Communist equivalent...
Last week as the seasonal rains fell, signaling the start of ant harvest time, Santandereano peasants bolted their spring planting and scrambled as fast as their bare feet would take them to the dune-like ant hills that dot the countryside near the city of Bucaramanga. Stepping lively to avoid the angry swarms of worker ants, they seized the inch-long queens as they emerged, and popped them into hollowed calabashes. The nimblest harvesters caught up to three lbs. of ants in a morning's work...
...support, and she took a job playing piano in a café. For ten long years she pounded the keys and squeezed the centimes until she had enough money to get a farm-and then bought a plot of lowland that the sea invaded every summer, carrying off the harvest before it could be gathered. Indomitable, Ma built a wall of mangrove logs to keep the sea away, but a storm came and broke the wall in a single night, and broke Ma too. She kept on talking of the things she was going to do ("We'll have...
...Bulldog Drummond (1929), Colman soon established the cultured air of weary British dignity that became as crisp and negotiable as a sterling note. His best-known films followed in the late '30s and early '40s-A Tale of Two Cities, Lost Horizon, The Prisoner of Zenda, Random Harvest-but his only Oscar came with A Double Life in 1947. The narrator's role in The Story of Mankind (1957) completed his list of more than 100 film credits...
...late Playwright-Journalist Charles (The Front Page) MacArthur, entered Hollywood as The Young Stranger, did so well that Walt Disney signed him for The Light in the Forest and the upcoming Banner in the Sky. ¶ Warner Le Roy, 22, son of Veteran Producer-Director Mervyn (Random Harvest, Quo Vadis) Le Roy, last year took over a movie theater on Manhattan's First Avenue, remodeled it, presented Tennessee Williams' long-running Garden District. ¶ Anthony Perkins, 26, was a tot of five when his father, Broadway Matinee Idol Osgood Perkins, died. The versatile father's big reputation...