Word: harvesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvest of Years (by DeWitt Bodeen; produced by Arthur J. Beckhard) is about a farm family named Bromark. It is rather like, if rather worse than, a good many other plays about farm families. Much happens in it, though little seems to. Margareta's man throws her over for her sister Mellie. Chris's girl passes him up for his nephew Jules. People drink; people squabble; babies are born; mothers die in childbirth. But for all that (says the author at the end) the sky doesn't fall in; actually, the family doesn't even fall...
...been doing. In 1948, it would get more outside help in supplying food, the burden that had put the greatest strain on the U.S. There were good crops in Australia and Argentina, and even hope that Europe, after eight years of bad crops, would have a normal harvest. The peak of the export boom had passed and, with a loosening of raw materials all around, there would be more goods for the U.S. in 1948. While the U.S. still worried over finding some magic nostrum to curb inflation, some slight curbs were already at work. Credit was being tightened...
Throughout, but perhaps no better than in the final words of this book, there is summarized a life time of thought and a life time of civilized living. At the heart of the nature of things, there are always the dream of youth and the harvest of tragedy. The adventure of the universe starts with the dream and reaps tragic beauty. This is the secret of the union of rest with peace that the suffering attains its end in a harmony of harmonics. The immediate experience of this final fact, with its union of youth and tragedy, is the sense...
...place, the ports of New England, when the scene was small enough to be grasped and the time span not too great to be covered, when a kind of flowering of commerce took place, as wonderful in its own way as the literary harvest that followed it. Samuel Eliot Morison's The Maritime History of Massachusetts, touches on this period; Salem and the Indies covers it in detail...
...punishing six-week offensive there. The Communists had not attempted to storm cities like Mukden and Changchun. They had been satisfied with attrition and wreckage. Along 150 miles of Manchuria rail lines they had warped rails to uselessness over bonfires of railroad ties. They had carted away the Manchuria harvest, disrupted coal and electricity supplies. The winter of 1947-48 would be bitter in Mukden and Changchun...