Word: seeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...driving or flying along the front with one of his two aides, Majors "Chet" Hansen and "Lew" Bridge, while his able chief of staff, Major General Leven C. Allen, keeps the operations machinery spinning. After dinner Bradley usually sees a movie (e.g., Janie, Heavenly Body, Bride by Mistake, Dragon Seed) screened by his aides in his quarters, pecks out a letter to his wife on his portable typewriter, goes to bed early...
...work is being done by servicemen, the credit for its success belongs mainly to a group of 25 civilian experts from the Foreign Economic Administration, who are headed by tall, weatherbeaten Knowles Ryerson. Starting from scratch little more than a year ago, Ryerson and his men have furnished enough seed, fertilizer, machinery, tools and sound advice to bring the farms up to a high level of efficiency, despite obstacles that would make many farmers down tools...
...their first sore sample of Pacific plowing on Efate, in the New Hebrides, where they planted their first seed. Thick virgin underbrush had to be uprooted, coral sand scraped away. But with the help of French prison labor, they were soon producing. Last Christmas the boys had 15,000 ears of sweet corn...
...York Harbor. Instead of anchovies, olive oil and cheeses, the stevedores trundled out 96,000 Ibs. of red squill, 224,000 Ibs. of argols, 90,000 Ibs. of bergamot oil, 74,000 Ibs. of lemon oil, 1,000 Ibs. of orange oil, 20,000 Ibs. of onion seed, 5,500 bags of briarwood, 66.000 gals, of wine...
...Cleaning cotton seed before machine planting. After ginning, the seed has a fuzzy nap that makes seeds stick together; planting these clusters by machine makes "chopping" (thinning), necessary when the plants come up. The Hopson farm eliminated chopping by de-fuzzing the seeds so they could be planted singly...