Word: sorghums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pretty plant, with gay red and orange flowers shaped something like violets. In South Africa, where it abounds, Boer farmers call it rooibloemetjie (little red flower) and vuurbossie (firebrand). In the U.S. it is witchweed (Striga asiatica), a parasitic plant that sucks the life sap of corn, sorghum, sugar cane and many other crops, leaving the plants as rustling ghosts while the little red flowers bloom over their roots...
...little doubt that bighearted Ma would help caddish Jack. For listeners know Ma better than they know Nora Drake, Our Gal Sunday, Young Doctor Malone, Mary Noble and eleven other serial sobbers. Ma, like Ivory soap, has been floating around longer than any of them.* Last week, saintly, sorghum-sweet Ma Perkins celebrated her 25th year on the air as the grey, bespectacled widow who operates a lumberyard in Rushville Center, U.S.A. For 15 tear-stained minutes a day, five days a week, Ma has solved more than 100 real-life problems involving alcoholism, civic intrigue and second marriages. This...
Asked by CBS' Ed Murrow to define his foreign policy, Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito gave it a game try, sounded like a sorghum Senator caught without his ghostwriter: "Well, it is difficult to say-how I shall put it-because it is a d'iffi-cult job. Our foreign policy is known. Well, we are not in any of the existing blocs. We stand for the principles of coexistence. And, of course, if it is necessary now to describe our foreign policy, then one-one must take care to-to-to do it in that...
...soil bank, farm-area Democrats defeated a plan to raise corn acreage limits 14 million acres, lower the support price 5? a bu. but require corn farmers to take soil-bank payments on some cropland. But the rural Democrats' move to include oats, barley, rye and sorghum in the soil bank was knocked down by a coalition of Republicans and city Democrats fearful of the extra cost ($500 million to $1 billion a year...
...optimism stems from a new kind of operation of the old law of supply and demand−with overtones of Government action. The Agriculture Marketing Service estimates that farmers will harvest 24% less oats, 3% less corn, 10% less barley, 21% less sorghum grain, 5% less hay than they did in 1955. Main reasons are drought and cold weather, which not only cut yield per acre but also prompted farmers to plow their damaged crops under and join the Federal Government's soil bank. Since the soil-bank plan was inaugurated in late May, more than 10.7 million acres...