Word: harvest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rank & file of the prosperous, conservative Farm Bureau feel about it? Thousands of its members owed much of their current well-being to measures of the Truman Administration; thousands had voted for Harry Truman in 1948. With the Brannan Plan as bait, the Democrats were hoping to harvest the farm vote indefinitely...
Gradually, the reforms born of Nationalist China's last desperate stand were showing signs of maturity. From Formosa's verdant plains and lushly terraced mountains, farmers had reaped their biggest harvest since the war. Lightning raids by government police were keeping currency black-marketeers in check...
...going for the hardy friar, veteran of long treks through Peru and Central America. Besides, he had his secret. The royal road to riches he had talked about back in Mexico City had been only a come-on to hasten the expedition. What Fray Marcos sought was the rich "harvest of souls" he expected to find in the north...
...Psalm Book, first book published In the U.S. ($151,000), the manuscript of Alice in Wonderland ($50,000), and a lock of George Washington's hair. His biggest sale was in 1928, when Lord Duveen, British dealer and collector, paid $360,000 for Gainsborough's The Harvest Waggon. That auction, from the estate of U.S. Steel's Judge Elbert Gary, brought a whopping $2.3 million, the alltime U.S. record...
...standing on the verge of a great national revival," says Evangelist Billy Graham, "an oldfashioned, heaven-sent, Holy Ghost revival that will sweep the nation ... In the words of Joel: 'Put in the sickle while the harvest is ripe...