Word: harvesters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just led two thousand Smokerites through the strains of "Harvest Moon" and "Alexander's Ragtime Band...
...Chinese for "A Little Bit Of Something Precious") was the first giant panda ever to reach U. S. shores alive. To capture it, Mrs. William Harvest Harkness Jr. spent $20,000 and many months in remote Tibet, two years ago gave the baby giant panda to Chicago's Brookfield Zoo. Mrs. Harkness introduced Su-Lin as a "she," and Chicago's zoologists saw no reason to change the designation...
...California's highways during the last few years a tourist sometimes encounters a mysterious and appalling sight-thousands of jalopies, driven by hungry-faced men, bulging with ragged children, dirty bedding, blackened pots & pans. Hated, terrorized, necessary, they are migrant workers who harvest the orchards and vineyards, the cotton and vegetable fields of the richest valleys on earth. Their homes are filthy squatters' camps on the side roads, beside the rivers and irrigation ditches. Their occupational diseases are rickets, pellagra, dysentery, typhoid, pneumonia, starvation, sullen hatred exploding periodically in bloody strikes. Old American stock, they are mostly refugee...
...consideration, however, leads but to one conclusion; owners of electric razors must to all costs read their daily radio programs with great care. Let them learn when Paderewski, Artie Shaw, Bob Benchley, Bea Wain, Information Please, and other necessities of life are due; ten let them rap the daily harvest accordingly...
...crack. At a time when they could least be spared from the western front, 500,000 soldiers of Germany and Austria-Hungary were needed to keep the Ukraine in order. Moreover, the Ukrainian peasant was not enthusiastic about feeding the Germans at the front. For the 1918 harvest they tried to trick the Germans by planting just enough for their own needs. Only 42,000 truck loads of grain were exported from the Ukraine during the entire period of German-Austrian occupation...