Word: plows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lordship and the lovely Virginia Lucie fell in love. "I know how to milk a cow and to plow the fields and I love every bit of it," Virginia Lucie said. His Lordship was pleased. He, too, had the country heart and he dreamed of how Virginia Lucie's dark hair would shine in the candlelight at the dinner hour and how her slim legs would twinkle across the great oak floors and her laughter would drive away the shadows in the stormy nights of winter...
...precious time won from the Jap in the victory of the Coral Sea was running out. Soon he would strike again, and this time he might plow through to New Caledonia or to Australia's sparsely held coasts...
...battalions and regiments. Unlike the 1941 exercises, this year's "little maneuvers" will have plenty of airplanes, plenty of tanks. Soldiers and officers will learn how to work up behind dive-bombers, how to cooperate with reconnaissance aviation, how to move in swiftly behind tanks. and how to plow ahead to take objectives that tanks cannot take...
Except for sugar, soon to be rationed, and fats & oils, once imported in quantity from the Far East, U.S. farmers had the food situation well in their plow-calloused hands. They were doing better than the Washington food bureaucrats. A half-dozen Government agencies were dabbling in the food problem, with well-confused results. The Agriculture Department's sugar section and Leon Henderson's Office of Price Administration, among others, played with sugar rationing. Nearly everyone had a hand in the fats & oils market: Agriculture, OPA, State Department, Board of Economic Warfare, WPB's food section, Jesse...
Then WPBoss Donald Nelson began to sweep up the mess. He gave OPA full control over sugar, offered the Agriculture Department a lone hand in fats & oils. With these two trouble spots cleared away, and the man behind the plow working as never before, the nation's prospects in the Battle of Food were looking fine...