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First it was radishes. Not holly-hocks. Not geraniums. Nothing majestic and beautiful; not even GOP sunflowers. Just plain garden-variety radishes. But the curious public soon cleaned out the Yard's first useful food crop, and it seemed that grass would, after all, be the main product of several...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weird Vegetable Is Lactuca Satiua, Webster's Declares | 6/20/1944 | See Source »

To meet the crisis Russia has turned to Victory gardens with a vengeance. This summer 10,000,000 people are tilling 2,500,000 acres of such gardens in a desperate race with hunger.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Bread,Toil and Victory | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

Faith, Hope and Charity. For the British, Malta was a naval base, a handy coaling station and therefore a bright military jewel which, with Gibraltar and Suez, gave the empire control of the Mediterranean. This was not to say that the Maltese themselves remained altogether satisfied with the latest rulers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Bulwark of Christendom | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

Last week's exhibition at the Boston school committee's Beacon Street building was a public show of classroom work done by the children. Notable was the ease with which moppets grasped economic and quasi-economic ideas, illustrated them with graphic charts and pictures. Examples: > An eighth-grade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Money for Moppets | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

A back-to-the-farm movement began with a campaign of Nazi slogans to make the peasants "France's favorite sons." Minister of Agriculture Pierre Caziot announced that agricultural reconstruction would be accomplished by showing the peasantry their "social importance" and abolishing their "past impression of inferiority in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Hour of Truth | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

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