Word: swathes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening Lin Yutang had learned that from the point of view of destruction this was probably the worst raid Chungking had ever suffered. A huge swath of fire raged through the city's most crowded sector. Next morning Author Lin took a walk. He saw 10,000 homes burned or blasted; he saw people sleeping in the streets; and when he also saw a potter setting out his wares for sale he was amazed at the display, not of porcelain but of nerves. That afternoon the bombers returned, gutted the business district, including many foreign offices. The big Changanszu...
Ponderous, expensive ($1,500 & up) was the combine of a decade ago, which cut a swath of eight feet or more, was used for little but wheat harvesting. Today its little brother is thoroughly at home among soybeans, cowpeas, small grains. Last year 80% of the 31,000 combines sold in the U. S. were little fellows six feet and under. Since U. S. farm buying power in 1939 rose 5% to $8,518,000,000, the industry cocks a hopeful eye at the 1,183,687 small farms in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin (not counting other hundreds...