Word: harvesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Random Harvest (Greer Garson, Ronald Colman, Susan Peters; TIME...
...loss of Burma deprived India of 1,500,000 tons of rice. This year there were crop failures in several large provinces. In Punjab, where crops were good, they rotted because too many farmers came down with malaria at harvest time. All over the subcontinent hoarding was predicted by farmers, wholesalers, retailers and consumers who expected greater shortages and higher prices. Railways were so overburdened with war traffic that it was difficult to move grain from areas of plenty to those in need...
...Random Harvest (M.G.M.) is a first-rate film made from James Hilton's second-rate novel of the same name. This English idyl brings together two veterans of Hilton films-Greer Garson (Goodbye, Mr. Chips) and Ronald Colman (Lost Horizon). Random Harvest, which is better than either of those, is distinguished by 1) a moving love story, 2) the unveiling of Miss Garson's interesting legs...
Packages. It was a good year for anthologies, a better one still for popular dictionaries. American Harvest ($3.50), edited by Allen Tate and John Peale Bishop, proved that many U.S. contemporaries have achieved a broad and respect able mastery of literature's one sure preservative: form. In properly honoring formal accomplishment, the editors were inclined to undervalue literary vitality. A Treasury of the Familiar ($5), edited by Ralph L. Woods, usefully disregarded taste and value in favor of collating hundreds of literary tags, good, bad & in different, which lie, on the literate tongue, just between tantalizing half-memory...
...with impressive ceremonies, forms the background to the church's baptismal pool. For this job Painter Binford was paid in produce. "The local Negroes," he explains, "who have spent months posing for and watching me paint this mural, inaugurated for my benefit and unknown to me a 'Harvest Home' in their church." Now the Binfords have enough preserves, potatoes, beets, corn, chickens to tide them over the winter...