Word: harvests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sifting the evidence in favor of the immediate settlement of the Italian problem, Salvemini pointed out that "the harvest this fall has been the worst in 40 years." "Unemployment is widespread, too," he continued, "and the reviving of industry must be accomplished soon." If the general situation in Italy is not corrected, he argued, then "we can expect trouble from Italy in the future...
Hawaii's pineapples normally ripen only during three summer months-a short season which puts a costly strain on harvest labor and canneries. Acetylene helped a little, but not enough. Recently, some growers have switched to the long-named chemicals which agricultural scientists call plant hormones (e.g., alpha-naphthalene-acetic-acid). Most plant hormones are still experimental and not in general use, but they are currently the biggest excitement in agricultural science. By all reports, they are working like Disney magic in Technicolor...
...Upton Sinclair. TIME reviewed Wide Is the Gate, vol. 4 of Author Sinclair's serial-in-progress. Dragon Harvest is vol. 6. And the doldrums are more than midsummer...
...complain about the midsummer doldrums in literature. It is barely possible that you may be helping to cause these doldrums. Many of your readers might be interested to know about a best-selling novel called Dragon Harvest...
...west of the Oder River, provisional Polish-German frontier. But, with Russian consent, the Poles moved over the Oder, took over all of Stettin. Now 200,000 Germans there have been ordered to clear out. There was one Polish concession: they would not eject the Germans until after the harvest...