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...place in the South Pacific where we had to get a lot of things-rubber, tin, and so forth and so on, down in the Dutch Indies, the Straits Settlements and Indo-China. And we had to get the Australian surplus of meat and wheat and corn for England...
Known as one of St. Louis' ablest attorneys, Hay is a big, heavy-set man with a black mustache, a good showman who loves "fightin' and speakin','' a classic corn-country orator who began making speeches at the age of eleven on the Ozark farm where he was born...
Biggest problem in rural church finance is that farmers have little cash to put in the collection plate. But farmers usually have plenty of cotton, wheat or corn-on-the-hoof-and most of them can be induced to work a few extra hours to raise a bit more to help the church. The Lord's Acre Plan asks churchgoing farmers to till an acre or so, or raise extra livestock, and give the extra cash to the church...
This was a stunner to Claude Wickard. He knew what it was to walk all day behind a plow pulled by a restless team; to pick corn with cold fingers and an aching back, to spread manure by hand, to shock wheat all day under a hot sun. He knew that hogs could suddenly stop getting fat and die of cholera; that if they didn't die they could sell so cheaply there was no profit in the year's long work. He wanted to do something about that. He wanted to help make farm life better...
...widely advertised Nazi advantage was said to be the fact that grain was still too green to burn. But in some places they were reaping green corn; in others, they hauled out sprayers formerly used for pest-killing, and burned the grain with chemicals; in others, though abandoning the standing grain, they ruined agricutural machinery, depriving the Germans of the means of reaping...