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...would be for months to come, the mind of the world was on wheat -bread for the hungry, from the Rhine to the Yangtze. But in the great U.S. food factory, corn-and-hog farmers did not change over their fields to wheat production, nor did cattlemen plow up their rich pastures. Each in his individualistic way was tooled for his specialty and subject only to the weather and the vagaries of a controlled economy. Each knew that if he did his part, and if the other farmers of the world could once again do theirs, the world would...
...demanding impossible reparations; from little Bukowsko they demanded one million zlotys. When the 3,000 villagers raised only 300,000 zlotys, the raiders burned all but eleven of Bukowsko's 400 cottages, John Kinglarski, who used to mine coal near Kingston, Pa., said the Ukrainians had burned his plow and stolen two horses and a cow for which he had paid 8,000 zlotys ($80). Kinglarski, who was wrapped in burlap bags, waved an old U.S. passport. "I had beautiful clothes in America," he said...
...Across the magnificent prospects of New Delhi's viceregal gardens, Lord Wavell watched a team of bullocks draw a wooden plow through 70 acres of lawn. Maize, wheat and vegetables would grow there-too little and too late to relieve the famine that had already begun. Noting that few Delhi Britons followed the Viceroy's example, the Hindustan Times bitterly suggested: "Perhaps if the effect is heightened by alternating red tomatoes with green grass, New Delhi may be able to preserve its esthetic soul intact and appease the hunger of the masses. As for tampering with private rosebuds...
...Pare Lorentz' The Plow That Broke the Plains and The River, which broke ground for U.S. documentaries...
Then something happened. The second engine began to plow up track and ties. A broken rail speared through the third engine. Like a wounded giant it veered crazily, then rolled down 75 feet of embankment, jerked five of the train's 17 cars with...