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...Union Institute of Selection & Genetics claim to have disestablished tomatoes, potatoes, wheat and barley. Their conservatism vanquished, the plants could be grown in almost any part of the mighty Soviet Union: e.g., a tomato was deeply shaken by a grafted liaison with a nightshade. It became so enterprising that, sown outdoors in May, it ripened its fruits before the early frost of Moscow...
German artillery, high in the hills, were zeroed in on the river banks. German mines were thickly sown along its shores. Major General Fred Walker, the division's commander, thought (and told General Clark) that an attempt to cross the river at that point would be suicide. Nevertheless lean, nerveless Mark Clark ordered the attack and drove the 36th at the river for three days. In those three days the 36th lost more than 2,000 men-taken prisoner, wounded or killed...
...first year's tithe amounted to only five cubic inches of grain, which was contributed to the Tecumseh Friends Church I and eaten by the pastor as breakfast cereal. The remainder of that tiny crop was sown on a 24-by-60-ft. plot of land given by Henry Ford, to whose thrifty imagination the lot-from-a-little scheme had strong appeal.* As the project burgeoned, Ford continued to donate the geometrically progressing areas of land, and at last September's sowing personally broadcast a peck of the symbolic wheat...
...Cure. For the sake of a peaceful Europe, says he, Germany must be weak. And it must be dismembered, perhaps occupied for a generation, stripped of many industries, educationally reformed by the victors, thickly sown with intelligence officers watching for any signs of V-102. Nor can Germany be reshaped merely by putting "democratic" German elements in power. "The German Right are undoubtedly the bloodiest men that have ever defiled the earth. ... I insist upon their being totally liquidated as a political party or force. ... I prefer the German Left. I am not, however, fool enough to take the German...
...tremendous admiration for Toscanini. Toscanini, who seldom in his life has had a good word for a competitor who could possibly be considered a rival, recommended Stokowski to replace him when he decided to take a vacation from NBC in 1941. But the seeds of trouble had already been sown the year before, when Toscanini's South American tour took the bloom off Stokowski's later Good Neighborly trip with the All-American Youth Orchestra. The minute Stokowski took over at NBC he began making changes in the broadcasting technique of Toscanini's orchestra. He altered...