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After that the Waldensians spread southward to the rugged Abruzzi and to the great olive-and vine-growing sections of southern Italy and Sicily. They have also spread to Argentina and Uruguay, where they form the fifth district of the Waldensian Church. In the U.S. Waldensian Italians usually become Presbyterians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Battle for Italy | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

...frantic call went out to the U.S. Army to send 1,000 soldiers from Fort Dix to help unload. Meanwhile, half a million bushels of tomatoes were in dan ger of rotting on truck, freight car and vine. A volunteer crew of more than 2,000 citizens and servicemen worked over the weekend, saved the waiting truckloads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Dangerous Race | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

...late afternoon and eat them before dark the same day. Such is the advice to Victory Gardeners given by Dr. Mary Elizabeth Reid, of the U.S. Public Health Service and National Institute of Health, in the Journal of The New York Botanical Garden. Tests show that even on the vine vegetables may lose as much as 25% of their vitamins after the sun goes down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: When to Pick | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

...farmhouse, Mrs. Liebers had been busy every minute. She fed the chickens and did the afternoon milking, picked green apples for applesauce, dug and peeled enough potatoes for supper, shelled peas fresh from the vine. At 9:30, when the last of the twilight faded and the workers came in, she had the fourth meal of the day waiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: MIDWEST HARVEST | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

...them against being overoptimistic: "Some of you pilgrims think when you're buried that you'll wake up as white folks on Resurrection Day. Let me straighten you out on that right now. If you plant an Irish pertater, you don't get no sweet pertater vine. When God plants a colored boy, he ain't countin' on diggin' up a white feller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Second Front in Harlem | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

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