Word: wheat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee's report to Congress with a temperate letter of recommendation. This newest New Deal plan to make life richer and safer for farmers differed from previous ones in that it was not to be launched on an imperial scale. Its authors proposed to begin with the 1938 wheat crop only, wait on time and experience before extending it to other staples...
...Rainer manages to make her every thought and action as clear as crystal. Silently she fosters Wang's yearning for more land, shields him from his sycophant uncle (Walter Connolly). In one of the screen's most authentic thunder storms she rushes forth to help save the wheat, stops to bear her first man-child alone. When the famine comes, she cooks mud for her three children, silently kills her friend the water buffalo when Wang cannot make himself do it. When he would sell his land for a pittance, she prevents it, leads the family...
Though the President's message on judicial "reform" may contain a few good ideas, it seems to be a case of the wheat and the tares growing together, with the tares outstripping everything else in sight. For in talking about crowded calendars, dockets two and three years behind schedule, waste, expense, and inefficiency in litigation, and the consequent inaccessibility of justice to the "little fellow", Mr. Roosevelt's remarks, as they apply to district courts, and to a lesser extent to the circuit courts of appeal, are true as gospel. Yet to induce from the bad conditions prevalent...
...which recurs in parlor sports at 30-year intervals. Monopoly, based on real-estate tradings, and G-men, invented by onetime G-Man Melvin Purvis, were the first non-escapist parlor sports since just after the turn of the Century when Bunco and Pit, based on Chicago's wheat trading, were highly fashionable. Bulls & Bears, played on a parcheesi-like board, concerns stock purchases, pools, dividends and taxes. The object is to acquire corners on as many stocks as possible, force other players into bankruptcy. Dice determine stock prices...
...VISUAL record of what happens when a blade of wheat grows has been made in this remarkable series of photographs taken by O. T. Bennett, an associate in plant breeding at, the University, of Illionois...