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Nine surplus commodities have thus been eaten up in the past 13 weeks. Lettuce (featured May 11-25) had a harvest of 55% above average; spinach, 10% more than usual; asparagus, 57% higher than normal (both were featured June...
...velvet counterpane; the full grain in the ear; the arched necks of horses dipping willingly as the first fields fell to the reapers; the sputter of tractors; and the patina of maturity touching the cabbage leaves in thousands of little back yards. God helping, it would be the biggest harvest in all of Britain's history, and people were grateful. Not that they would eat more-they would eat less. But every extra ton of ripening grain was a ton of shipping saved for guns...
With farm hands in khaki, all sorts of people had helped: 28.000 green-sweatered girls of the Women's Land Army, soldiers on harvest furlough, schoolboys on vacation, munition workers in their yards and window-boxes, London housewives keeping chickens in bomb holes...
...land was good, the planning bad, the result fantastic. The harvest season found the U.S. with too much wheat, millions on millions of bushels too much-so much that the Midwest had to store it in boarded-up schoolhouses, hotels, garages...
...Timoshenko, the peasant from Bessarabia, had seldom seen a better stand of wheat. It was high and golden, ripening in the sun, nodding with the blue cornflowers in the summer winds which swept the valley of the Don. The grain, his peasant eyes told him, was almost ready for harvest when the Germans came...