Word: seeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...SEED BENEATH THE SNOW-Ignazio Silone-Harper...
...adding more grain to the glut. The year's crop was expected to hit 900,000,000 bushels. Grain men figured that this, plus the 630,000,000 bushels carried over from last year, would be enough to supply the whole U.S. for two years, without putting another seed in the ground...
...Last spring the U.S. Government bought 100 lb. of kok-sagyz seed, in conducting experiments with it in Connecticut...
...each week, the occupying authorities had tried to set up a Polish puppet government to keep order. When no puppets could be found, the Germans released their rage in the volleys of firing squads. In Norway the invaders confiscated 80% of the herring catch. Living now on herring and seed potatoes, the Norwegians were told by Vidkun Quisling that next winter they will eat only bread made of fine sawdust and "peat flour...
...floss will replace kapok, formerly imported from Java, in l) life jackets where, like kapok, it is six times as buoyant as cork; 2) linings of flying suits, where it is as warm as wool but six times lighter. Next year farmers will be paid to plant free milkweed seed in 50,000 barren acres of upper Michigan...