Word: harvests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italy potatoes were doing better even than before the war and wheat was pretty good. In France, farmers expected the best crops since before the war. In Germany it looked as if the 1946 harvest would be little better than last year's. Rationing will continue on the present minimum subsistence level...
Drowned Hopes. Ireland barely escaped famine. Britain's crops, if not her worst, were the most difficult to harvest within living memory. Prayers for sunshine went unanswered. England's' wheat was a rain-beaten tangle. Under the headline "The Afflictions of Thy People," a London Daily Express bulletin read like a litany of the counties, intoned over drowned hopes: "Norfolk: . . . Corn in stook too wet to be carted. Hopes run low. Devon: Crops ruined; corn sprouting. Somerset: Corn lands waterlogged. . . . Hertfordshire: Fields are as squelching as in winter. . . . Surrey: Position serious. Crops deteriorating daily. . . . Suffolk: No work...
Japan too celebrated the harvest moon with a "Moon Viewing Festival." Millions of Japanese came out to gaze skyward, to dance and feast in honor of harvest home. Some remembered that in Japanese tradition the moon also symbolizes homesickness. Outside the cream-colored Russian Embassy in Tokyo, 3,000 men & women, mostly elderly farmers, marched slowly back & forth, bowing as they passed the big iron gate. In their hands were small white banners decorated with moons. One banner was inscribed: "Oh moon, tell me where...
July 12: The Soviet harvest for 1946, said Radio Moscow, is far in excess of last year...
...artificial frost for potatoes. When late potatoes reach maturity, farmers pray for frost to kill the vines. If it does not come, a lot of evils may. Potatoes grow lopsided, bumpy. Juicy vines clog the digging machinery, and blight spores from their still green leaves may infect the harvest...