Word: livestock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end the report had not been confirmed, but in any case, Ukraine rains had been torrential for almost a month, and detailed descriptions poured through Europe's gossip centers of "an avalanche of unstemmed water, floating wreckage and drowned men, trees, livestock, and houses down to the delta." Berlin said that German artillery had foiled the blowup, but that "the swirling waters of the milewide, swamp-bordered river might have temporarily slowed the German advance." For the Russians it was a week of drainage. On boats, barges, tree trunks, rafts of boughs and oil drums, soldiers...
...Hitler wants foodstuffs for a badly nourished Germany and New Order Europe. He would get 78% of Russia's cultivated land (260,000,000 acres), a somewhat higher percentage of Russian livestock. But Russia has seldom been much more than self-sufficient as to food. War damage would make export surpluses highly un likely. Hitler could scarcely afford to steal important quantities of food from the peasants responsible for succeeding crops. As a long-term investment, handled with German efficiency, Russia's "great granaries" might prove a mighty asset, but the immediate profit would undoubtedly be quite small...
...celebration provided good bucolic fare. Secretary of Agriculture Claude Raymond Wickard spoke from Washington, then an announcer in Indiana described the Secretary's Carroll County farm while Wickard livestock supplied a grunting, snuffling obbligato. From Indiana the program wandered to a Georgia vegetable garden, a poultry house in California, a wheat field in North Dakota. As usual the show was neither cute nor corny. It aimed to tell the farmer about his business, got down to earth as speedily as a gopher...
...plenty of cotton, wheat or corn-on-the-hoof-and most of them can be induced to work a few extra hours to raise a bit more to help the church. The Lord's Acre Plan asks churchgoing farmers to till an acre or so, or raise extra livestock, and give the extra cash to the church...
Surgeon General Thomas Parran begged farmers to stop throwing "one of the most valuable foods - dried skim milk" - to the pigs. In fact, he said, "we have given our livestock the best part of many foods." Other experts urged that more dried eggs be produced, that farm lands be devoted to mass cultivation of vitamin-rich peanuts and soybeans...