Word: potatoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that they would not unload cargoes from "certain places, those countries giving hospitality to Machado. ... In this way they will make it impossible for him to take shelter in any place, making life for him as impossible as he made it for so many thousands. . . ." Alarmed were the Associated Potato Shippers of New Brunswick who had expected a fine export business this season with Cuba whose 1933 potato crop is nearly...
...named islands in the South Atlantic-Inaccessible, Nightingale, Tristan, Goughs-two young British explorers last week announced they would go for two years. Francis K. Pease, 27, veteran of two Antarctic expeditions, and Edward B. Marsh, 21, will take food to about 200 islanders on Tristan, reduced to a potato diet because their exhausted soil will grow little else. They will try to move the inhabitants to the virgin soil of Inaccessible, study meteorological conditions and the islands' possibilities as a South Atlantic airline base...
...Lord Tilbury, looking down, saw that a portion of her afternoon meal, in the shape of an appetizing potato, had been dislodged from the main convert and had rolled out of bounds. It was this that was causing the silver medalist's distress and despondency. Like all prize pigs who take their career seriously, Empress of Blandings hated to miss anything that might be eaten and converted into firm flesh...
Riots continued well on into the nineteenth century, usually mere potato or bread fights, but always waged with deep grudge and flaring hate of the authorities. History relates that Prescott, the great historian, was partially blinded by a flying piece of stoney-bread; a food which conveniently supplied both the issue of the war and the ammunition. But the meek reception by the students this year of the news that the University, attempting to run its dining halls on a no-profit basis, had inadvertently made a net haul of $40,000 proves that the old-days are indeed gone...
...they knew that Farmer Dietzen (his real name) was "Hans Fallada." A lawyer's son, Author Dietzen spent an awkward and unhappy childhood in Berlin and Leipzig but has never felt easy in urban surroundings. Failure as a farm executive, clerk, bookkeeper, estate agent, provision-dealer, potato grower, he failed also with his first two books. Then he married, settled down in Holstein, then Berlin, with his wife and child, and made enough money with his third book to get a house and garden. With the comfortable profits from Little Man, What Now? he bought his own farm...