Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...encouragement worked well. Potato production in 1943 reached an all-time high of 464,999,000 bushels, there was plenty for all. But last week the Government was reaping a bumper crop of wastage from the seed it had so generously sown. Perfect weather and DDT combined with the Government incentive to boost this year's crop to a near-record...
State had a hot potato to handle; even circumstantial evidence was hard to find, and it did not want to get into a public brawl and be accused of Red-hunting. Its six-man screening committee moved cautiously, marked many dismissals for "incompetence" or other causes. Added to the ousted 40 were 39 others who were dropped because they were aliens or did not meet citizenship requirements. More than 200 others were put down as ineligible for permanent employment...
After unsuccessfully badgering three California radio stations for an opportunity to air his atheism, a retired Palo Alto court reporter named Robert Harold Scott had petitioned the FCC to revoke the stations' licenses. For 16 months the FCC juggled this hot potato. Finally, it denied Scott's petition, but said in the course of a 2,500-word decision: "Freedom of religious belief necessarily carries with if freedom to disbelieve, and freedom of speech means freedom to express disbeliefs as well as beliefs...
Faith & Sweet Potatoes. In two years Mrs. Bethune's school was teaching 250 girls. By selling sweet-potato pie and ice cream to the railroad construction gangs, she raised enough money to buy the oozing city dump (known as "Hell's Hole"). Negro workmen, who took out part of their pay in tuition, built Faith Hall with secondhand bricks on 32 acres reclaimed from the dump...
...mules, 37 chickens and 13 human beings with whom he had shared an abandoned boxcar on Teche Bayou and set out, at 12, to fend for himself. He became a lumber grader, a Wells-Fargo messenger, a medicine-show spieler in "Tincup, Miss.", a silo builder in Montana, a potato digger in Idaho, a sheepherder in Colorado, before he again settled down in lumber...