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...cool prayers to the harvest hands...
...double-barreled blast at sport by War Mobilizer Jimmy Byrnes (TIME Jan. 1) reaped a hectic harvest. His order padlocking U.S. race tracks produced a multitude of moans from horse-folk, but mightier still was the chorus of questions that sprang from all kinds of sport fans all over the nation: did re-examination of 4-F athletes indicate the near-end of every sport, especially big-league baseball...
...Enid, Okla. (pop. 28,081), a smart grain dealer, Dale H. Johnson, bought mung seeds, begged the skeptical farmers in Garfield County near the Oklahoma Panhandle to plant a test crop. Johnson believed that the beans could be seeded, grown and harvested during the three to four months between the end of the winter wheat harvest and the beginning of fall planting for next season's wheat. He was right. The beans grow well when there is sufficient rainfall in late summer...
...mung planting in Oklahoma was up to 35,000 acres, the yield was 270 lbs. of beans an acre. This year 80,000 acres of mungs were planted, an estimated 16.8 million Ibs. of beans harvested. Most of the harvest was trucked to Johnson's busy grain elevator. In fact, some farmers darkly suspect that Johnson cornered the mung market this year, and is making a killing. He denies it. But he bought all the beans he could get, at from 10 to 18? a lb.. last week was shipping them out to Chinese buyers in New York...
...Audience: Mexicans of all ages, gathered around a miniature theater set up in a public square, a factory, or a harvest field...