Word: harvests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last spring, he married Libby Sebranek, a girl he had once crowned queen of the Garber F.F.A. chapter. Besides keeping house in their neat farm cottage, Libby does more than her share of chores. Said Ray Gene: "Never would have got the wheat harvest in this year if Libby hadn't run the combine for me." They get up at 4:30 in the morning and work until n at night. "Sometimes when we're not so busy," says Ray Gene, "We don't get up until...
...Goes Meat. The shouts in the pit sent echoes across the prairies. Many farmers were angry because ceilings were lifted after most of their harvest had been sold. Others who had gambled on the lifting of ceilings and withheld their crop were sitting pretty, with paper profits of 20? to 35? a bushel...
...mountain wood lots that ring Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley, it was Christmas-tree harvest time. During the summer, lanky Bruce Swinamer, 43, had been out spotting likely trees for the trade. Last week, his boss, a New Yorker named Willis ("Christmas Tree") Clark, checked into the Cornwallis Inn at Kent-ille, got set for the cutting of 125,000 balsams for the city market...
...across-the-border display of short tempers (TIME, Aug.11, 25), Canadian railroads were accused of sticky slowness in returning empty U.S.-owned coal cars. Last week the shoe was on the other foot. At the season when Canada's need of boxcars was greatest-to move the grain harvest from prairie to port-U.S. railroads were far behind in their return of closed cars...
...godless little acre of squalor and lechery staked out by Novelist Erskine Caldwell has been tilled to exhaustion (Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre, Tragic Ground). But Caldwell still goes on. His latest harvest is an unappetizing literary turnip called The Sure Hand...