Word: crop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dollar-volume of U.S. exports declined 91 millions in 1928 from the post-War peak of 4,968 millions reached in 1927. But this was due to lower prices. Quantitatively exports increased slightly. The dollar-volume would have risen but for the poor cotton crop...
...Secretary of Agriculture must deal with crop-years-from sowing-time to harvest-time-rather than with fiscal* years, which, in the U.S., begin and end in the middle of calendar years. Secretary Jardine, reporting on the crop-year 1927-28 and anticipating 1928-29, announced...
...principal export, nay the mainstay of Ecuador's economic existence, is cacao (the seeds of which provide cocoa and chocolate), but lately this crop has declined, causing great economic distress. To speak plainly, Ecuador is the most insignificant and poorest of the South American republics. She is supreme only in her production of the finest toquilla-the straw from which so-called Panama hats are woven...
...Most U. S. citizens, encouraged by President Coolidge, gave thanks on Nov. 29. But in North Dakota, record wheat and potato crops have been followed by lowest prices since the War. Therefore, observed last week's official N. Dak. crop summary, North Dakota farmers, seeing no occasion for thanksgiving, gave no thanks...
Keystone Aircraft Corp. Bristol, Pa. / Pathfinder, Puffer / Passenger & military / . . . . . . . . . . .Special / Patrician, world's largest plane; accidently burned. Crop dusting by plane...