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...Victory gardens, no less than Russia's farmlands, cry for seed. Especially acute is the problem in the recaptured territory, swept clean of food and seed by the retreating Nazis.* Today, all over Free Russia bloom "Acres of Friendship." The seed from these is the free farmer's gift to his newly liberated brethren...
This summer 15,000,000 families in Russia have had their first taste of Idaho peas, New Jersey tomatoes, Oregon onions, Michigan beets. Planted on 500,000 acres of Russian soil, the seed was the gift of U.S. farmers and seedgrowers through the Russian War Relief, Inc. For some of this seed this will be a native's return, for the Red Turkey wheat and Kherson oats were first brought to the Middle West by immigrants from the Ukraine...
...Londoners have counted nearly 100 plant varieties growing in their city's bomb cavities. Most common is the rosebay willow herb. Some like to believe the plants spring from forgotten, centuries-old seed churned up by Nazi high explosive...
...state airplane-design bureau, revels in the reputation of a Man-Who-Gets-Things-Done. Stalin often visits Iliushin's offices, gives unexcited pep talks to the staff. When Hitler went on his rampage, Iliushin began to toy with the idea of a flying tank-buster. The seed of the idea was the memory of a frying pan with which many a Russian flyer armor-plated his plane seat in World War I. Out of the frying pan came the fiery Stormovik, which has destroyed so many Nazi tanks that the Germans renamed it der schwarze Tod (the Black...
Canned Canaries. In Colorado Springs, Sheriff Sam Deal held a man for U.S. narcotics authorities despite the prisoner's insistence that he grew marijuana just to provide seed for his canaries, who sang better...