Word: barley
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...average worker in Germany works ten hours a day for six days a week. He makes 130 marks a month ($52), spends half of it for taxes, rent, lottery chances and the automobile he has been promised some day. He drinks beer, sometimes made out of barley or sugar beets. He worships Hitler. But last week from some where in Germany was broadcast a mes sage to the Italian people: "You have the revolutionary arms in your hands...
...runs France's richest coal belt. Lille makes textiles and chemicals. Mezieres and Valenciennes are important steel towns. France's beet-sugar industry was in the north, and the entire area, with 85 inhabitants per square kilometer (2/5 sq. mi.) was a rich farm area for corn, barley, cattle, horses. The Germans would go methodically about rehabilitating all these resources, "to make the war pay for itself...
...peasant boy is imprisoned for feeding barley to a hen; a pastor for calling his congregation to account before God for their cowardly acceptance of evil. A professor of law delivers, to the delight of his students, a perverse, seditious lecture on theories of Nazi justice. A sailor is shot for having attended a workers' mass meeting in Manhattan. The local head of the Gestapo cracks under the strain to his decency, warns the city's Jews on the eve of the pogrom of November 1938. In the closing story a mediocre Nazi writer rediscovers his honesty, gets...
...make grass fit for human consumption, the chemists dried, bleached and ground the leaves of wheat, barley, oats and rye, produced a white powder with a slight malt flavor. The scientists ate this grass all winter, caught no colds, enjoyed excellent health. Three U. S. factories and one Canadian are now making powdered grass. Approximate cost...
...under. Since U. S. farm buying power in 1939 rose 5% to $8,518,000,000, the industry cocks a hopeful eye at the 1,183,687 small farms in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin (not counting other hundreds of thousands in other States), growers of wheat, oats, barley, rye, buckwheat, red clover seed, alfalfa, timothy, sweet clover, beans, cowpeas-as potential market for small combines...