Word: sorghums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such was the probable basis of last week's titanic paper war. At reports of far-flung air battles engaging several hundred planes, the skeptical New York Herald Tribune cocked an editorial eyebrow, suggested that the Japanese had drunk too much native sorghum whisky and mistook Lake Bor bustards for Soviet bombers. The only alternative conclusions were: "Either the units of the Japanese Kwantung Army . . . have developed a talent for fiction ... or they are engaged in an undeclared war with the Soviet Union on a scale that deserves a more sophisticated audience than the local nomads and their herds...
Mebbe while you're at it you better include the sorghum lickers too as associate members. Theys a lot of them round here that got nitiated in that art long as Hank Smith was runnin his sorghum mill...
Barrels of sorghum molasses that the soldiers could not carry off were overturned in the basement and this syrup scraped from the brick floor was the family's only sweetening for some weeks thereafter...
...promise him? Some people are living in your other house and won't pay rent and won't get out. Someone stole the top off the stove and broke two windows. Your cross-cut saw is gone and so is that gallon of sorghum. I'd have written sooner to tell you they stole your last four chickens, but I couldn't find a stamp. The moths are in the clothes and two blankets. Both children have mumps. Harry says he will sign your bond if the weather fairs...
Jerusalem Artichokes are sunflowers which have a starchy, tuberous root. They flourish in semi-arid regions. Like yams in Southern States, corn in Prairie States, barley in Northern States, potatoes in Idaho and Maine, sugar beets in the West, sorghum in the South, sugar cane in Louisiana, Jerusalem artichokes can be turned into alcohol. If produced on a large scale such alcohol could be produced for from 7 to 10? a gallon, figured Dr. Leo Martin Christensen of Iowa State College. At that price it is cheap enough to mix with gasoline as a motor fuel, especially if any need...