Word: harvests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began to grace the German table. Following seven lean years, seven fat years were just around the corner, Germans assured one another. "With Holland our vegetable garden, France our vineyard, Denmark our dairy, Poland our slaughterhouse, the East our wheat fields, the Southeast our orchards, and Italy our little harvest-helper, what more do we want except some real coffee...
Totting up its balance sheet for 1939-40, the American Civil Liberties Union last week reported that only seven movies ran afoul of State or local censorship in the U. S. last year. The seven: Birth of a Baby, the French film Harvest, the U. S. Public Health Service's Fight for Life, Strange Cargo and Primrose Path (these two notable because they were produced by major Hollywood studios whose self-censorship is usually effective), Birth of a Nation (Negro trouble in Denver), and an anti-Nazi blast variously entitled Hitler, The Beast of Berlin, Goose Step...
Fortnight ago, the wheat markets alternately boiled and froze with rumors. The spring wheat crop in a dozen granger States was almost ready to harvest. It was the season of the private guesstimators, who multiply rainfall by wind damage, divide by brigades of bugs, and sometimes pull figures out of the air, vie with each other in predicting the size of the crop. Meanwhile agents of the U. S. Crop Reporting Board were scouting, sampling and interviewing throughout the wheat belt, getting the cold dope from the farms. Last week, behind locked and guarded doors in Washington, the Board added...
...hear Halleck's nominating speech. He listened while Halleck pleaded his cause, told the story of Wendell Willkie, who had been born 48 years ago to a lawyer mother and a lawyer father in Elwood, Ind., now wanted to be President. This Willkie boy had worked as a harvest hand in Minnesota, in the oil fields of Texas, had run a tent hotel in a Colorado boom town, worked as a migrant laborer in California. He had gone to Indiana University, been admitted to the bar, married pretty Edith Wilk, an Indiana girl. He had gone...
...Paris-soir and a few other newspapers reappeared in abbreviated form, their editorials consisting of recriminations against the late leaders of France or don't-let-it-get-you-down advice and encouragement. German officials anxious to get refugees back home in time to take care of the harvest, organized transportation and even supplied vehicles. Young Nazi soldiers were so ultra polite that Parisians saw in their conduct an implied criticism of their own customary rudeness. French authorities ordered the destruction of abandoned pets to prevent hydrophobia. Food shortage became acute and decrees restricting the use of flour...