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...farm, .66 tractors, .31 trucks), where late spring rains delayed corn and soybean planting, where the corn crop was down by 20,000,000 bushels-there was talk of a new 40-inch combine and of what the weather will be like for next month's delayed harvest...
...night, the cards were slightly damp. When they dried out-it might take ten minutes or ten years, depending on where they fell-the reaction of oxygen on phosphorus made them burst into flame. This weapon, railed the Germans, was "obviously directed against the German youth, the German harvest. . . ." Officials complained that simple burghers picked the cards up as souvenirs of war, only to have them ignite in pockets and drawers; that children handled them and were brutally burned...
...more through. Milk, butter and cheese are scarce or nonexistent, for the Germans rule the great northwestern dairy area. No new stores of sugar from the occupied beet-sugar district around Lille are destined for Free France. Free France will eat none of this summer's harvest from the breadbasket of the northern plains. There is still tobacco in the Rhone Valley and Auvergne, but those shops in Provence that still have stocks also have queues outside, and in the Mediterranean departments few people any longer smoke. Gasoline in Free France is rationed to refugees going north...
Wild-Rice Harvest...
From 1936 to 1938 (last year for which figures are available) the U. S. S. R. was the world's third largest producer of cotton. Russia's growing industry needs more & more cotton, and in 1938 used the entire harvest of 3,000,000 tons (12,000,000 bales). Last week the Soviet press exulted that Russia would soon export cotton to the already cotton-glutted world...