Word: home-grown
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...years the Department of Agriculture's Tropical Station in Puerto Rico has experimented with home-grown smells. Its pretty chemist, black-eyed Noemi Garcia Arrilaga, specializes in extracting the .essence of the coffee flower. Some months ago, Senorita Arrilaga thought she had it. was further encouraged by local distributors who said it had a "pervading tropical fragrance with a come-hither accent." The distributors have yet to persuade U.S. perfume brewers, who fall into two general classes, 1) the topnotchers,. who claim there is no adequate substitute for their dwindling hoards of French, Bulgarian, Chinese and Tibetan essences...
Observers, wondering why the Communists picked old Bolshevist Minor instead of a younger man, guessed that the Party, busy with internal struggles, wanted another home-grown front...
Referring to specific countries. Davis maintained that Great, Britain has "forced changes in individual diets, but not radical ones." This has been done "through regulation of imports, controlled distribution of home-grown and individual supplies, and rationing." He supports the contention that the British Isles are facing the Blitzkrieg with ample supplies of food and necessary materials...
...losses the British must "say a temporary good-by to apples, grapes, apricots and bananas," said Food Minister Lord Woolton. Imported meats would soon be rationed further. Milk, eggs, pork were running short for lack of imported feeds. Surveying Britain's future food situation, some observers predicted that home-grown turnips might become as strategic as homemade guns...
...laboring millions. When the position of labor is strengthened, increased vitality is given to the most sincere peace groups in the nation. When the buying power of the laboring man is increased, and the living standard raised, the most basic and constructive step is taken towards the prevention of home-grown communism or fascism-a step worth more than a thousand investigations by the F.B.I. or Martin Dies. A defense program used to defeat the efforts of the largest and truest group of defenders in the nation can be nothing but sheer travesty, can do little but open the doors...