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Hawaii's pineapples normally ripen only during three summer months-a short season which puts a costly strain on harvest labor and canneries. Acetylene helped a little, but not enough. Recently, some growers have switched to the long-named chemicals which agricultural scientists call plant hormones (e.g., alpha-naphthalene-acetic-acid). Most plant hormones are still experimental and not in general use, but they are currently the biggest excitement in agricultural science. By all reports, they are working like Disney magic in Technicolor...
...Upton Sinclair. TIME reviewed Wide Is the Gate, vol. 4 of Author Sinclair's serial-in-progress. Dragon Harvest is vol. 6. And the doldrums are more than midsummer...
...complain about the midsummer doldrums in literature. It is barely possible that you may be helping to cause these doldrums. Many of your readers might be interested to know about a best-selling novel called Dragon Harvest...
...west of the Oder River, provisional Polish-German frontier. But, with Russian consent, the Poles moved over the Oder, took over all of Stettin. Now 200,000 Germans there have been ordered to clear out. There was one Polish concession: they would not eject the Germans until after the harvest...
Last week, ex-G.I. Hudson shipped his first boxcar of tomatoes to the New York market. Before the harvest is over, he expects to ship another 59 boxcars of produce. He expects farmers to make from $300 to $600 an acre, to make enough for himself to live reasonably well, and to pay off his father-in-law. His idea has caught on so well that next year he plans to plant 800 acres. His newest dream: locally financed valley canneries to handle some of the new crops...