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...this meant: 1) that the U.S. in this year of war would have a bumper wheat crop to help feed hungry Britain; 2) that Dust-Bowl farmers would have money in their pockets to carry them through another dry spell; 3) that pessimists who thought the West's marginal wheatlands should be given back to the desert had reckoned without the whim of changing weather...
...last week it looked as if this year's crop was a bumper. Slugger Slaughter had led the early-season attack, with a batting average of .400, but the rookies had followed through like veterans. At second base, little Frank ("Creepy") Crespi displayed some fancy fielding; at bat, big Walker Cooper, filling in as first-string catcher, proved a valuable newcomer to Slaughter...
Still tighter, potentially, was space in the Grain Belt, where farmers worried about where to put the coming bumper wheat crop, alongside the record surplus...
...lost heavily by graduation last June, but it only made Coach Jack Barnaby start his rebuilding task a bit earlier in the fall than usual. Gone were such stars as Kim Canavarro, Jim Rousmaniere, Johnny Palfrey, and Bill Wood, but on the plus side of the ledger was a bumper crop of Sophomores and the customary rigorous non-intercollegiate competition. Matches in the Boston A, B, and C leagues are the training grounds for good intercollegiate play and make phenomenal individual improvements possible. Without this abundance of high-class competition, Coach Barnaby would have a much more difficult time...
...wheat economy is built on an average annual production of 350,000,000 bushels, of which the greatest part was formerly shipped to Britain. Of that Britain marketed a large amount. Blitzkrieg and the fear of helping the enemy has knocked that market out. Last year Canada had a bumper crop of over 450,000,000 bushels, of which 275,000,000 is still in elevators, unsold. This year another heavy crop, probably 400,000,000 bushels, is at hand. Last week Britain bought 100,000,000 bushels. This was the largest purchase in wheat history, but it was very...