Word: harvesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strength for Harvest...
After corn-cultivating comes hay harvest and oat harvest (oats are threshed). Corn harvest begins in October with a mechanical picker owned in common by Dale and two of Gus's brothers. The Kuesters heave the corn from the first ripe field into Gus's barnlike crib, the next field into Dale's, and turn & turn about until the job is done. It is usually done in time for the strenuous work of loading the first finished pigs for market...
...imported by countries that could not grow all they needed. But the war and natural disasters sent import needs skyrocketing. Europe, which imported less than 4,000,000 tons of wheat a year before the war, needed 15,400,000 tons this crop year from the 1945 harvest to the 1946. Asia and Africa, which normally imported only 2,400,000 tons, have needed almost 11,000,000 tons. All in all, needy countries came begging for 32,000,000 tons of wheat this year instead of the normal 13,000,000 tons of imports. The surplus countries (mainly...
...Long? Herbert Hoover said last week that this crisis was unique in history because it had "a definite terminal date . . . the arrival of the next harvest." That was probable, but by no means certain. This present crisis could only be met by reducing the stocks of the surplus countries. If 1946 harvests were plentiful or even up to the prewar norm, the world would get through to the 1947 harvest, although at a lower level of subsistence than before the war. (Strange as it seemed, after all the killing, there were 100 million more people in the world...
Missouri-born Benton repented his bohemian foibles and turned to painting what the Met's Director Francis Henry Taylor describes as "the ample American landscape" (he concentrated on harvest scenes). But even after they returned to Manhattan, most of his Paris friends felt themselves closer to Paris than to the prairie, and some brilliant stay-at-homes (Burchfield, O'Keeffe) felt the same...