Word: blighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Florida canal has been openly repudiated in Congress, leaving the laborers to wonder where their next few dollars are coming from. Cash must be spent on a certain day or not at all. Robert Moses must tear down the Casino by June thirtieth, or leave it forever a blight on the landscape of Central Park...
Bedeviled by a blight of interdictions and animadversions against AAA by processors, judges and Senators, nervous AAAdministrator Chester C. Davis has kept his tongue & temper fairly well under control. Last week his attention was called to the following advertisement in the Joplin, Mo. Globe...
...about how much wheat the U. S. will produce this year. The other concerned the effect of rust on the U. S. crop. About rust and its ravages little is known except that winter wheat is seldom damaged by it because the stalks grow tough before the blight appears. But tender spring wheat is particularly susceptible this year because of late seeding. Rust reports flowed into Chicago from all important spring wheat districts last fortnight, giving a fillip to the wheat futures market. Some estimated a loss of 20,000,000 bu., nearly 10% of the spring crop. Last week...
...number of correspondents all through the wheat belt?farmers, bankers, professional men, grain brokers, millers. Every correspondent receives a questionnaire each month asking the condition of the crop in his neighborhood. Before answering he generally takes a spin in his car through the fields, carefully inspecting the stand for blight, damage from drought or rain, condition of the kernel. He makes his report to the forecaster on the basis of percentage of normal?normal being the long-range average yield. Since the forecasters already know how many acres have been planted, the estimate of yield is arrived at by multiplying...
...That tradition does not make spectacular executives. Mr. Williams in due time became president of Reynolds Tobacco, had a 1,800-acre farm with blooded cattle down on the Yadkin River and got to work at 7:30 in the morning. But neither did that life blight his ability. When he paid his first visits to Washington in 1933 he went as the representative of the hard-headed big four cigaret makers with the job of getting a "re-employment agreement" (i. e. preliminary code) that suited them. He got a code that specified not a minimum but an average...