Word: harvests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only after a last worried look at the sky; each morning they hurried out to scan the skies again, to put a speculative finger to the wind. Two more weeks of good weather, not too hot, and above all, no rain, would bring the lushest wheat harvest in a decade...
...good year since 1919. By day, the farmers fretted over the things that could go wrong. Hail storms or heavy rain could lay whole fields flat. A spell of 100-degree heat might cause the grain to shatter. Some times insects scourged the land just before the harvest...
...always hungry for salt. A peasant will offer 9 lb. of corn for 2 lb. of salt, or a goat and kid for 11 lb. of salt. This spring, as every spring, wheat and vegetables have been sowed, but the peasants remember the German way of marching in at harvest time...
...great as the Army's tragedy was that of Honan's tall, patient peasants. After years of famine, this year's crop was rich and fat, all but ready for the harvest. Just before the Japanese struck, plans had been completed to move 1,000,000 Ib. of poison spray into Honan to check the inroads of locusts. Now the plans lost meaning: what the locust spares, the Japanese will take...
...rains helped the winter-wheat crop. Oklahoma and Kansas farmers cheerfully scanned billowy green fields. Good growing weather until June would mean a bumper harvest to spill into the nearby empty elevators. Pastures and grazing lands also thrived; from New England to the Rockies, the grass was lush...