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...hate and death. An actress emerged from the crowd, accused her father of heinous crimes, including rape, and demanded his death. The prisoners were loaded in trucks and driven off to execution grounds. The youths of the city formed rings around the trucks and danced the gay yangko (harvest dance). Some 600,000, said the Red press, witnessed the killings...
...starving to death in India. For seven weeks, Gene Cox and his little clique had smothered the relief bill in committee. But now church groups across the nation were demanding action. So were many people who saw no reason why Communist China, with famine on its own hands, should harvest a psychological victory by supplying India with grain, while the U.S., which has a wheat surplus, was denying it to a nation in need. Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, who can control Southern Democrats like Cox when he has to, ordered him to get busy...
...saying this to start off a plea for contributions. A little straw basket was duly passed around; it came back brimming with one dollar bills. The basket passer retired during the question period to a small room, partitioned off by the pamphlet shelves, to count out the evening harvest. Contrary to tradition, the question period was not followed by a rendition of the "International...
...would do no good to tell people to stop milling their rice. In some areas, to eat white rice is a point of pride, even among poor peasants. Still more compelling, natural or brown rice spoils so fast that it cannot be stored until the next harvest. Dr. Williams had assigned the moneymaking patents on B1 to the Williams-Waterman Fund; after V-J day the fund set out to put the vitamins back in the Asian's rice...
Last week the tide of illegal Mexican "wetbacks" flowed strongest into California's lush, hot Imperial Valley, where the harvest season was at its height. But they were crossing the Rio Grande into Texas, too; by autumn, immigration men estimate, more than a million wetbacks will have surged across the 2,000-mile border between the Pacific and the Gulf, hunting jobs as the Forty-Niners hunted gold...