Word: harvesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...needed food in time of famine. Sir Girja knew that in Bengal this week there was no celebration of the bumper Aman crop (the December rice crop). There was no celebration, only desolation, and silent villages ravaged mercilessly by hunger and disease. For there was no one left to harvest the Aman crop-the stricken peasants sat on doorsteps mourning their dead families, too tired, too sick to take courage from the ripening paddy fields...
...York's American Labor Party, which delivered 300,000 votes to Roosevelt in 1936 and 417,000 in 1940, he knows the business on a small scale. He has a rich field to work in: besides C.I.O.'s 5,285,000 members, he can try to harvest votes from A.F. of L.'s 6,100,000, the Railway Brotherhoods' 350,000, the uncounted thousands of sympathetic farmers, white-collar workers and little businessmen...
Poland, perhaps the most brutally treated of the overrun countries, first suffered confiscation of all state properties, all central stocks of textiles, food and livestock. Nine thousand factories and 60,000 commercial enterprises were taken over for exploitation by Germans. In 1942, 80% of the harvest was sent to Germany...
Allied blockade, air attack, further losses on the front must inevitably lower Germany's already reduced industrial production, burden and snarl its already strained transport system. In contrast to industry, Germany's food situation is better than it was last year. The 1943 grain harvest in Europe was good, and the Nazis meant every word of their boast that Germany would eat if all Europe had to starve. The German bread ration was recently increased. Yet the black market continues to flourish. One of Germany's sorest shortages is in housing. Nazi figures admit that...
...Fire. But tobacco-wise War Food Administration officials found no fire behind the smoke. Their own facts: before this year's harvest, the tobacco industry had on hand 1,378,782,000 lb. of tobacco, enough for two years' normal demand. The quick-burning war demand in 1944 will force manufacturers to dip heavily into this hoard, but will still leave them with more than 20 months' supply. While they customarily cure tobacco 24 to 30 months, they could use tobacco cured only 18 months in a pinch, with no harm to the U.S. throat. (The British...