Word: homegrown
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Allied and Italian officials breathed more freely last week. But with plenty more deserters from the Allies' polyglot armies in Italy running around loose, they were not looking forward to a peaceful winter. Goggle-eyed Romans, reading the story of the Lane gang, wondered how much their homegrown desperadoes were learning from the American visitors...
...woolgrowers that the enormous stock be tossed into the sea in a modern version of the Boston Tea Party the liquidation was conducted along orthodox lines. With great dignity N.W.M.C. held a two-day auction in Boston, sold 23 million Ib. of wool at prices below the cost of homegrown wools. In Salt Lake City, the National Wool Growers Association was grimly mum. In San Antonio, the Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers Association bleated: "The trade is taking these wools in preference to ours...
...give Canadians more radio variety and more homegrown entertainment, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. opened its second network this week. CBC hoped it would make Canadians listen more to their own broadcasts, less to programs from U.S. stations...
Lettuce-growing, ballyhoo-loving Salinas, Calif, was bursting with civic pride last week: homegrown, natural rubber in small but commercial quantities was bouncing from its Government-owned guayule-processing mill. Pounding, chopping and sloshing away night & day at mounds of tough, dry guayule shrubs harvested and baled in the fields near by, the little mill was turning out six tons of 100%-California rubber every 24 hours...
...Brazil's recent 240 milreis ($12.36) monthly minimum wage laws because he knows Brazil-and especially Lojas-needs larger public purchasing power. Originally, 90% of his wares came from the U. S. or Europe. But Lojas financed many a backroom Brazilian factory; now 75% of its goods are homegrown, and many a Lojas-squired factory now sells all over Brazil. Some of them have even begun to cast eyes on the world trinket markets once dominated by Czecho-Slovakia and other European countries...