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...Reap where they have not sown...
Upon presentation of their last year's membership cards, the 9,500 members of the Coop will begin today to reap the dividends on their 1939-40 expenditures...
...would have to be done about this estimated ?1,500 million deficit. In answer The Economist recently showed that if the whole of all British incomes of $8,000 yearly and over should be taken by the State-which already takes from 37½% to 80%-Sir John would reap only an additional ?60 millions. Mere chicken feed -and of a kind to poison those bourgeois pullets who lay so many golden Treasury eggs...
Last week this Broadway drama of hardships was bleak reality. As the farmers of Matanuska Valley, after four years' uneven struggle against mounting debts for machinery and equipment supplied by the Government, prepared to reap the best harvest in years and write off some of their obligations, an Arctic blast sent the mercury down to 10° below zero. Potatoes froze in the field, 80% of the grain stood in the field, unharvested and ruined, acres of market produce were destroyed, and under a foot and a half of snow the Valley lay in white, stricken silence...
...resown. Adequate snowfalls and spring rains helped, but the French wheat crop will be well under last year's, though ample for French needs even had 268,000,000 bushels not been carried over. The great French need was not wheat but field-hands to reap it. France, which relies on about 500,000 migratory laborers and their families from Belgium, Poland and Czecho-Slovakia to gather its crops, this year expected Germany to hire away the Belgians while Czechs and Poles would be kept at home...