Word: crop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...themselves. The recent crisis was useful because it clearly showed who Fascismo's real friends and foes are. The party does not want lukewarm adherents who will cast it off. The new Directorate which the Council meets to elect must be strong and disciplined." Italy's wheat crop has failed. This was evidenced when Roman bakeries started to bake the inferior war bread - now called pane popolare and sold for 1 lira 20 centesimi per kilogram (6 cents). The price of white bread advanced to 2 lire per kilogram (10 cents), owing to the advancing price of wheat...
...made to the limits of human patience on the part of the audiences. Richard Wagner used to insist on live beasts on the stage for his various animal-parts, and his widow, Cosima Wagner, who is running this show, insists on the same. 'Consequently this year's crop of Bayreuth pilgrims are viewing with glee Fricka's flock of real goats, Wotan's ravens, Siegfried's bear and toad-and, of course, the Dragon. Where the Dragon was found for this year's performance, one is unable to discover at this distance. . . . The Rhine...
...press recently broadcasted from Liege, Belgium, the announcement that Surgeon Serge Voronoff, famed French gland-grafter, had stated that it was possible to increase the wool crop of sheep by gland-transplanting. He added that he hoped, by repeating the process on several generations of sheep, to create a special breed unusually wool-productive. He said that he was experimenting on a flock of 3,000 sheep in Algeria...
...consumed by the world at the present time; 10,700,000 bags go to the U. S. A. alone, 10,300,000 to European countries, and about 1,000,000 elsewhere. Coffee dealers question whether, apart from the Brazilian revolution, production is keeping up with consumption. The forthcoming Brazilian crop is estimated at 9,500,000 bags, about 6,000,000 bags will be produced elsewhere, and there is a world's visible supply of some 5,000,000 bags-making 20,000,000 bags altogether. This situation is responsible, according to the coffee trade, for the fact that...
...price of over-rapid expan- sion. After absorbing the Midvale, Cambria and Lackawanna properties, it found that large sums were required to modernize and coordinate them. Meanwhile the steel business has been undergoing a very severe slump during the last few months. U. S. Steel came an even worse crop- per in 1903-4, just after its organization. Bethlehem Steel is just now experiencing a period of the same sort of difficulties, and the company's directors were no doubt wise in resolving to conserve cash at the expense of common stockholders until earnings improve...