Word: harvests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more citizens volunteered. Torrential rains fell; closed windows in the editorial office of the Houston Post could not keep out the rain; there was half an inch of water on the floor. Rice farmers along the Texas coast watched the tender stalks-the biggest crop in years, ready to harvest-smashed into flat ruin in an instant. East Texas became a country of blinding rain, flooded roads, broken communications, broken windows, stalled cars, banging signs.' Lights went out, but great gas flares burning in the oil fields stretched out like pennants in the wind...
...through August, under the blue skies of Central China, the blue-robed, sun-browned peasants had watched their rice fields slowly darken in green, then fade to the color of straw. Within their firm husks the grains of rice had whitened and hardened. It would be a good harvest. Prices were dropping in anticipation...
...Japanese garrison in Central China watched the rice too. Japan was rice-hungry. As the harvest began last month, 14,000 Japanese soldiers struck from their north Hunan bases down into the rice country. Last week while the decision seesawed in the balance, the Chinese soldiers fought desperately for their desperately needed rice. Two years ago they had driven the Japanese out of this sector. This time they meant to hold. But Hunan's battle was only a minor incident in the great struggle of Asia for rice...
...base province, had a crop failure. Its yield fell off almost 50%. To prevent hoarding, to make certain of Army and urban rice supplies, Chiang's Government this summer decided to collect the land tax in grain (almost exclusively rice), not money. With a better 1941 harvest in the offing, Free China is faced with no immediate famine...
...this strange spree, most Chicago spudmen credited the Government's own bulletin (Demand & Price Situation), which predicted: "somewhat higher prices this winter." Potatoes were in a cheerful statistical position anyway. This year's harvest will be 374,000,000 bushels, 24,000,000 below last year, with demand way up. (Not only are Army and Navy big buyers, but canned or dehydrated spuds soon may go to Britain.) Also entrancing to speculators was another fact: there is no such thing as a potato carryover. Since potatoes cannot long be stored, each year's harvest must be eaten...