Word: harvests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mines in the Wheat. Shipments of 40,000 tons of wheat tided North Africa over its crisis. Expert Feeder Parisius, with a chance to put his production theories into practice, concentrated on the harvest. He got sappers to clear away the mines planted among the wheat. He got oil, binder twine and spare parts for North Africa's farm machinery. To give North Africans an incentive, he urged shipments of U.S. clothing that the workers could buy with money earned in the fields...
...With its harvest in, North Africa is now nearly back to normal. Always a grain-exporting region, its grain surplus this year may run as high as 500,000 tons. The French in Tunisia are stockpiling some of it to help feed France if & when. Some of the money the U.S. spent has already been repaid in North African cork, phosphates, iron ore and olive oil. The French have also paid $25,000,000 in cash...
OFRRO was lucky in North Africa: if the fighting had continued another month, most of the harvest would have been lost. But luck aside, OFRRO learned that relief and rehabilitation need not be so expensive as they sound...
...later. To show the Italians what kind of occupiers we are, to prevent Sicily from slipping into hunger and disease, Mr. Roosevelt added, food, medical supplies and diesel oil for milling wheat are already being shipped from North Africa. Selected war prisoners will be freed to help in the harvest, which begins in a few weeks...
...believes that plowing is responsible for erosion and most other ills of the U.S. soil. He tested his theory by using a cultivation method of his own: instead of plowing he disk-harrowed the soil and planted his crops in the chopped-up surface stubble, weeds and debris. His harvest was astonishing. Many a farmer who reads his newly published report (Plowman's Folly; University of Oklahoma Press; $2) may be tempted never to plow, again...