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...Soviet zone was always a food-surplus area, which the three Western zones were not. But now Russian-zone Germans are as hungry as those in the West. Near Bitterfeld, townfolk were using their Sunday off to glean the few stray wheat stalks left in the stubble of a wheatfield. They grind the grain by hand and make a sort of bread. Some, unable to wait, were eagerly breaking the stalk heads open and eating as they gleaned. It left a grayish paste of kernel shell around their lips...
...weaknesses of military administration, said the committee, were nowhere more apparent than in the procurement of new equipment. "When the Army decided to create a great tank plant on a wheatfield in the outskirts of Detroit to be operated by the Chrysler Corp., it was not even able to furnish worthwhile drawings of the tanks it wanted...
...flyer, still unidentified, parachuted into a wheatfield near the town of Preist last Aug. 15. His parachute caught in a tree, and the flyer had a hard time getting down. A 74-year-old farmer, Nicholas Nospe, was working in the wheatfield and saw what happened next...
Warden is only a wheatfield flag stop on the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific, and its four-room brick-front school has only 13 high-school pupils. But the 13 would be plenty and the subjects too many if brisk Mrs. Evans did not have the right kind of kids in her classes. As it is, she teaches English to six while seven others study by themselves; she need only start off the typewriting class, let the students supervise themselves while she trains the school band...
...time Bob Feller was 11 he was playing with American Legion teams. Father Feller, well aware by this time that his son would justify his hopes, decided to equip him with a team of his own. He scraped a Feller wheatfield, organized a team called the Oak Views on which, when he was not pitching, young Bob Feller was the shortstop. In 1934, pitching for Oak View, Bob Feller struck out 161 adult opponents in ten games. That autumn he and his father went to the World Series. Said Bob Feller after the games: "I can do as well...