Word: harvesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Random Harvest. In Albuquerque, N. Mex., F. M. Griswold stepped out into his frontyard, just missed falling into a ditch from which thieves had, overnight, uprooted his seven-year-old hedge...
...first real harvest of classics since Petrillo lifted his recording ban is only now reaching the market. Some of the June plums...
...Puerto Rico's 1946 crops at once. (Reluctantly the U.S. has raised the price of raw Cuban sugar from 2.65? a lb. to 3.1? and probably will have to go higher, but it is just as important to make the contract before planting instead of just before the harvest, as has been done...
...never heard a song upon the lips of my mother. I never even heard her hum a tune. . . . She was a confusing mixture of sternness, gentleness, and strength of will and purpose. She had borne twelve children, and had buried three of them. When the harvest required it, she had taken her place in the field. She had planted and tended the vegetable garden. She had spun the cloth, and had made the clothes which my father, my sisters . . . and I wore...
...against three problems that are beyond his control: 1) when war traffic is heaviest on his western railroads they will also be swamped with orders for tens of thousands of cars to move what seems likely to be the greatest wheat harvest on record; 2) he will be robbed of additional tens of thousands of cars that will be sent east with relief shipments of foodstuff for Europe; 3) if shipping is not immediately available, West Coast ports may not be able to unload freight as fast as the railroads will be able to deliver...