Word: harvests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...already at work in its plants, it will have 240,000 by fall. The aircraft plants, munitions factories, all the rest of the war's 50% of U.S. production will need more help, by the millions. And the farmers, encouraged to sow and reap the vastest harvest ever seen, have not yet been heard from. The weight of war was beginning to press on every U.S. home...
...when CCC gets the seed, it must then lure more U.S. farmers to sow it across some 300,000 acres next year, teach them how to grow and harvest it. (But CCC knows of only ten people in all the U.S. who are fully versed in the sensitive art of harvesting hemp: cut too early, the fiber is weak, cut too late, it is damaged.) Thereafter, materials must somehow be found to build 100 processing plants near the new hemp fields, men must be trained to staff them...
...longer needed) may be rebuilt to carry ore, and ships formerly handling wheat may be switched to the dusty, dirty ore trade. If they are, Northwestern elevators, already jammed with last year's wheat carry-over, will have little room to store this season's wheat harvest...
...Department of Agriculture announced that every effort would be made to increase the 1942 honey harvest by 50% over 1941's 206,591,000 lb. (equivalent of about 1% of last year's sugar consumption). Instead of exporting honey to Europe, the U.S. is now importing millions of pounds from Latin America...
...Because of the shortage of farm labor, many a U.S. high school will be closed this year from May to November, to let its students plant and harvest the crops...