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...worst news of all was that the U.S., which had had ten years of good crops, and which is the largest single supplier, this year had to record a failure. It had been a bumper year again for wheat, but the corn crop had withered. The total supplies of U.S. cereals, as estimated last week, were 14,400,000 tons under 1946, which was almost exactly the amount the U.S. had exported to needy nations...
...hungry capital. Little boys resumed their sale of stuffed, varnished frogs. But Paraguay, too poor to afford a sewage system or central water works for its capital, would be a long time recovering from the latest revolution, its 27th in 41 years. Much of the nation's bumper crop of cotton, earlier estimated at 40,000.tons, had gone unpicked because workers feared conscription. Cattle had been slaughtered or driven away; production of quebracho extract, an export staple used in tanning, had dropped...
Chief cause of the upsurge was the Department of Agriculture's midseason crop report, even though prospects were described as "surprisingly good." The bumper wheat crop, greatest in U.S. history, looked even bigger than it had a few weeks ago. Now the estimate...
...rest of the summer, at least, the Midwest will have no more gasoline than in 1946-and consumption is up about 15%. The Midwest felt the pinch first because the railroads, swamped by the bumper wheat crop, could not haul enough tank cars. The East Coast, supplied by tanker, is luckier...
Small window decorations in New London proper and a bumper crop of balloon venders added something of the spectacular to the occasion but an all day drizzle today considerably dampened the spirits of the revelers...