Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Greek divisions, more heavy artillery than the entire Greek Army had when the war began. There were 80 field pieces, 55 anti-aircraft guns, numerous machine guns. There were 20 tanks, 250 trucks and other autos, 1,500 motorcycles and bicycles, 10,000 blankets, several thousand tons of wheat. Fortunately for the Greeks, the Italian ammunition fitted their rifles...
...little fellows who knew how to fight for home and honor. But the first round seldom decides a prize fight, and beneath little Greece's jubilation lay some grim facts. Greece faced woeful shortages of almost everything that it takes to fight a war. She lacked meat, wheat, oil, coal, sugar. Her chief sources of income-shipping and tourists-were no more. Her best customer of wine, olive oil and tobacco was Germany. Only Turkey and Great Britain can help her, and the latter has its hands full helping itself...
...Dunster's day college bills were not paid with money, but with various kinds of foodstuffs. These bills might be paid in wheat, malt, apples, rye, or butter. Cattle, on the hoof, such as cows, oxen, sheep, lambs, and steers, were acceptable; as were cattle slaughtered for meat
...What if schools and colleges took seriously the task of putting emotional feeling into the sight of a freshly and correctly plowed field, a plain of spring wheat, a harbor of boats, or the smoke of chimneys of factories at work, the rolling hills of Ohio, the irrigated valleys of Colorado and California? ... If American schools would give children and youth some understanding of the American Dream, they must send them out to search the hearts of the American people and to live on its soil...
...added, comes to more than two-thirds of her nine months' unfavorable trade balance with the U. S. As the other $10,000,000, the Rich Neigh bor could promise two other favors to the Colossus of the South. One was to keep U.S. wheat out of Brazilian markets, where U. S. dumping in 1938-39 drove Argentine farmers wild. The other was to stand aside on $160,000,000 of beef and corn orders now being placed by the British letting Argentina have first crack...