Word: harvester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yugoslavia, a dictatorship as absolute as Stalinist Russia or Franco Spain, needs economic help badly. All summer the sun has baked its rich black earth uninterruptedly to produce the worst famine in generations. Many peasants have not even bothered to harvest their dismal crops despite compulsory delivery quotas ordered by the government. They have slaughtered livestock for want of feed...
...tung. Mao, the French said, was training thousands of picked rebel Viet Minh troops in China and was equipping Ho's forces with heavy weapons. The Ho-Mao objective: the Red River delta. The time: after the summer monsoon and before the November rice harvest...
Toward Wonsan. Along the east coast road, where harvest-golden paddy fields came down to the sand dunes off the Sea of Japan, the South Korean 3rd Division this week reached Wonsan, where they encountered their first stiff resistance after a march of 100 miles in seven days from the 38th parallel...
Because of a drought, crops failed in Yugoslavia this year. Corn, the main harvest, was only half that of last year; wheat was down 30%, potatoes 70%. Total loss: 4,000,000 tons of foodstuffs and animal fodder. A winter famine would cut the capacity of Marshal Tito's independent Communist government to resist Stalinist aggression...
Biggest was the labor shortage. Southern farm labor has been steadily streaming north to Chicago and Detroit for factory jobs. Most farmers cannot harvest even a normal crop without the help of out-of-area labor, much less the 11 million additional acres they will have to plant to reach Brannan's goal...