Word: harvests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...works. He planted 360 kernels of wheat in i a plot 4 by 8 ft. Each year he has given a tithe (one-tenth) of the crop to the church, resown the rest. This week he and several hundred fellow tithers will go into a 230-acre field to harvest approximately 5,060 bushels...
...Russian zone, political reorganization was speeded up. To German provincial administrations chosen a fortnight ago (TIME, July 16), Marshal Georgi Zhukov last week added carefully picked county administrations (Landratsdmter). The reason given for the Russian haste was the harvest. A winter of famine faced the Germans. Crop forecasts were 45% below normal, and even that figure might be cut by a shortage of harvest hands, sickles, binding wire. All political organizations, said the Berlin press, were helping to draft thousands of Berliners for the farms of Brandenburg...
...July report indicated that the harvest of feed grains (corn, oats, grain sorghums) will be the smallest since 1941. The corn crop, feedbin for the livestock industry, was estimated at not quite 2.7 billion bushels-543 million bushels less than a year ago. For dairy farmers this may be made up, in part, by a near-record hay crop. Nevertheless, farmers look for a shortage of feed for their 715 million animals, fear next year's meat supply will be even less than...
...Harvest Time. In Washington...
...Tony the Angel (George Raft). His devoted, carrot-topped singer Sally (Vivian Blaine) warbles her way through a series of top-notch new musical numbers, sweetened with the soft-shoe rhythms and barbershop harmonies of the period. But even such authentic musical backdrops as Moonlight Bay and Shine On, Harvest Moon, tinkled on pianolas or wheezed through the gaping morning-glory horns of pristine phonographs, are powerless to give conviction or pathos to the story of loyal Sally's heartbreak or Angel Raft's dalliance with the snobbish Nob Hill hussy, Harriet Carruthers (Joan Ben-nett...