Word: harvesters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...problems of the men and women who were partners with the soil to realize the depth of their suffering and the extent of their need back there in 1932 and early 1933. I knew the pangs of fear and moments of rejoicing that come to the farmer as the harvest frowns or smiles. . . . "One of the greatest curses of American life has been speculation. I do not refer to the obvious speculation in stocks and bonds and land booms. . . . The kind of speculation I am talking about is the involuntary speculation of the farmer when he puts his crops into...
...Depression cost Farmer Campbell $600,000 from 1929 to 1934, cut his wheat plantings to 20,000 acres. They also gave him time to think. Through long Montana winters he saw his expensive machinery and skilled workmen standing idle. Why not, he asked himself, scatter crops in other climates, harvest the year round by sending his machines and men after the sun? Matching his equipment, experience and Government credit rating with outside money, Tom Campbell leased 14,000 fertile, irrigated acres in San Joaquin Valley. When his caravan arrives this week, he plans to begin planting 3,000 acres...
...setting February 18, 1795 as a national Thanksgiving day. Thanksgiving first became a national holiday as it is known today, in 1863, when Lincoln proclaimed a day following the battle of Gettysburg. Lincoln's successor, Andrew Johnson, in 1865 established Thanksgiving for the first time as a national harvest festival...
Oceanographic Institution, was back in its snug port after a month at sea, bringing a rich haul of new knowledge about the submerged land off the Atlantic Coast - harvest of an idea that the chunky, 50-year-old geology professor at Princeton University and his associates had been working on for three years. Dr. Field had no thought of learning anything new about the surface topography of the sea bottom. A great number of soundings with the old-fashioned line & sinker, more recently with the echo sounder, have disclosed that contour to oceanographers. Dr. Field wanted to know what...
...cold mists of Autumn are beginning to float over Cambridge from the fens in the evenings. On the University farm the sugar beet is being lifted and the sugar beet is being lifted and the harvest stubble is all ploughed up, while the October exams, finished this week, show their results in a few days, and show how many candidates reap the harvest of degrees and how many are ploughed...