Word: crop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...insisted, but emphasized that some time must pass before the first four were on a firm financial footing. As regards agriculture, Mr. Smith said : "The Hungarian land is a great possession and Hungary is very fortunate to be able to support herself by it." The prospect for the 1925 crop was the very brightest...
...Pulitzer Prize day, fortunately, there are no presentation scenes. Shortly beforehand, 12 journalists (the Advisory Board of the Pulitzer School of Journalism) and the President of Co lumbia University mull over reports made to them by juries* on the year's crop of plays, novels, verse, newspaper editorials, stories, cartoons. The 13 hold conference, then just send a list of winners to the newspapers for publication...
Conditions of the soil in the Union make the crop yield low. Possibly less grain is grown to the acre than in any country in the world. This makes cheap labor essential to the farmers and cheap labor is invariably black or yellow. The same can be said of the great Rand and other mining industries where white working men are employed almost exclusively as overseers...
Increases were: lumber (20%), coal (40%), petroleum (18%), martensite † (80%), iron ore (112%), copper (60%), manganese (45%), textiles (35%-50%), flax fabric (35%), matches (30%), rolled iron (50%), pig iron (122%), steel (35%), hides (3%), raw sugar (40%), cotton crop (800% within a two-year period...
Undoubtedly, however, the spring trade should be generally satisfactory, and in some departments very good indeed. But what the autumn will bring forth is another question; and one largely dependent upon the crops of the coming year. So far, at least, the symptoms of an early spring are encouraging to staple crop farmers as a class...