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Word: harvesters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shipping baskets, wrapping paper, etc. while he and his wife were doing some of the planting. Then Hudson started traveling up & down the valley, spreading his idea, hired a crew to run his planter. Three weeks ago he quit the U.P., got ready for the critical first harvest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMING: A G.I. Who Did | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

Last week, ex-G.I. Hudson shipped his first boxcar of tomatoes to the New York market. Before the harvest is over, he expects to ship another 59 boxcars of produce. He expects farmers to make from $300 to $600 an acre, to make enough for himself to live reasonably well, and to pay off his father-in-law. His idea has caught on so well that next year he plans to plant 800 acres. His newest dream: locally financed valley canneries to handle some of the new crops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMING: A G.I. Who Did | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

...crack inflation). Given internal peace, China might suffer less even in the immediate future than many anticipated. In coastal Foochow, two months after liberation, Chinese industry and doggedness had already brought civilian life to prewar levels. Streets were repaved, sampan traffic resumed, trade restored. Everywhere in the countryside the harvest promised to be bountiful. In a nation overwhelmingly agricultural and simple, there was solid reason for hope of a quick return to peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: I Am Very Optimistic | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

...great western powers, must have been terrific. The strain on her island people must have been more so. All nations at war secretly long for peace, and in Japan, the markers, commemorating the dead in the Shinto shrines had increased ominously in death's rich wartime harvest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Last Days | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

medical care, transient shelters, bread-and-soup lines, harvest work. Then the wanderers were hustled on. In some places confiscated landed estates were distributed to them. But all efforts seemed puny against the colossal need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Forced Migration | 8/13/1945 | See Source »

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