Word: harvesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...preparing for the worst in regard to all those supplies that come to us from abroad." Then he announced that gasoline would be unobtainable by private motorists during the month of February, that tea rations would be cut onefourth, that wheat reserves would last barely until the next harvest, that private coal consumption would be reduced to half a ton per home per month, that cattle would have to be slaughtered unless fodder formerly imported could be grown at home...
They needed both. There was no question about that. Even before the war, Europe* imported 15% of its foodstuff. A late spring, heavy rains and a poor harvest in 1940, the mobilization of armies, the gigantic and violent transfers of millions of civilians from one area to another, the withholding from production of millions of acres, the devastation of war and the looting of the Nazis vastly increased their dependency. The 78,000,000 bushels of wheat that Poland once produced had been cut down-nobody knew how much. More than half of the wheat-growing area of France (which...
...Before World War II Western sugar-beet farmers were content to import European seeds for each year's crop. It was cheaper than paying U. S. labor to gather their own. Foreseeing a shortage, Oregon beet farmers planted 1,000 acres of seed for 1940 harvest, nearly doubled the acreage for 1941. It has been a profitable operation. Selling at 7½? a lb., beet seed nets Oregonians a neat $125 an acre...
...allowed many another to work on undisturbed during World War II. With the Japanese ban on foreign church workers soon to go into effect, many a U. S. mission board last week was thinking of transferring missionaries from Japan and Korea to India, where the potential Christian harvest is great and the laborers...
...second French movie to be shown at the Institute of Geographical Exploration will be the highly-praised pastoral "Harvest." It is titled "Regain" in French and is written by Jean Giono. Tickets may be obtained by displaying bursar's cards at Robinson Hall. Showings will be given on Thursday and Friday afternoons and evenings at 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, and 9 o'clock. The film was originally banned by New York censors, but was later allowed to be shown...