Word: crop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current Atlantic Monthly, has arisen to justify the younger generation. He admits that he is sufficiently decrepit to be classed with maiden aunts, dry league reformers, and the bald-headed club, and yet he does not think his generation was infinitely superior in its youth to the present crop of earth-encumberers. It is, indeed, fortunate that he did not reveal his name, for if he had, a delegation of the middle aged would have tried and executed him of heresy long before...
Admiral W. A. Moffett, Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Department, fighting bitterly against a United Air Service, supremely confident of the Navy's ability and superiority to handle air matters on its own; breezy General "Bill" Mitchell, with his riding crop and spurs, a cavalry man who can fly, an Army man strongly advocating the service union which the Navy dreads; Godfrey Cabot, President of the National Aeronautic Association, a Bostonian of the great Cabot clan, so far interested in New York City as to advocate Governor's Island as a landing field...
Whereas wheat has risen about 50% in price during the past year, corn about 70%, oats about 40%, hogs about 40%, lambs about 25%; and whereas cotton, though lower in price is compensated by a larger crop, yet the prices for range cattle remain persistently low. Fattened cattle, from the cowbelt have risen some-what in price. But the raisers of range cattle have had no profit since 1921 and most of them are "broke." What they need, it is said, is liberal financing, on easy terms...
...emergency has passed in almost all the branches of agriculture save one. Yet the program laid out by the President for the Conference calls for a permanent prevention of emergencies rather than the solution of one existing problem. Already Leland Stanford University, in a review of the last crop year, is crying warning to wheat farmers not to increase their production?that their profit this year is an accident dependent on an unusually good crop in this country and crop failure elsewhere in the world. This is indeed true. The world crop of wheat is 11% less than last year...
...means of preventing depression from overproduction. But the attempt of the Conference in finding a permanent solution for the problems of overproduction may well become ridiculous within the course of a decade or two, for the reason that there will be no problems of overproduction. Even a bumper wheat crop, such as that of the present year, will no longer supply a surplus for export in 25 to 35 years at the present rate of population increase in this country Already per capita crop production is 5% less than in the five years before the War. Meantime, the need...