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...fighting Japs. They were strong enough to batter the Reds away from the rail lines at Szepingkai this month in a major engagement. But the Government was not getting much out of what it held of Manchuria. The big coal mines were shut down; the harvest could not be moved over transport lines broken by Communists...
...ease the pressure on prices, the Department of Agriculture canceled a July-August allocation of 6,740,000 bu. of corn for export and decided to substitute wheat, barley and grain sorghums. For all the abundant expectations, the demand for wheat was already being heightened by harvest trouble. Rains had already put the harvest behind schedule. And though there were more combines at work than ever before, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas were yelling for still more...
...Word for It. Clarence Francis, chairman of General Foods Corp., told a congressional committee that food prices (see Commodities) may drop as much as 15% by harvest time next year. Along with this far-fetched hope, Francis had a new word for the economic drop which he expected by year's end. It will not be "a depression or even a recession. I prefer to call it a 'corrective,' and a fairly mild one at that...
There was one thing missing from the exhibits: they had little magic about them. The ancestors of the exhibiting artists had made pictures to heal the sick, encourage the warriors, and bring rain for the harvest. Their art was designed for a purpose, not for show, and was full of symbolic force. But the Indians who sent their works to Tulsa learned painting from schoolteachers. Their pictures were art for art's sake, or at best, art for the record...
...large, when horses scratch themselves against trees or fences, when chickens or turkeys stand with their backs to the wind, when whirlwinds lift the dust on roads, rain is coming. A sunny shower means that "the Devil is a-whuppin' his wife." A mild Christmas means a heavy harvest, but "a green Christmas makes a fat graveyard." When a cat sits down with its tail toward the fire, the hillman looks for a cold spell...