Word: crop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Panaceas. It was apparent that something had to be done. On the 73rd ballot, a crop of mushroom panaceas came up. It was proposed...
...pioneer stage of the motorcar business is past. Now the changes in models are not so much genuine mechanical improvements as "selling points." This Spring the balloon tire and the four-wheel brake were novelties; now they are practically standard equipment. With the present new crop of "latest models," the chief feature consists in selling eight-cylinder cars in the moderate price field, and selling sixes at or under the existing prices for fours. The last Buick is such a six-cylinder model. What tomorrow's "new feature" will be, no one knows, least of all the manufacturers themselves...
Owing to the successive failures of the cotton crops of the past few years and to the high current price for cotton, this year's crop is being watched with unusual attention. The reports of the Department of Agriculture on the condition of the cotton crops as of June 25 showed marked improvement at 71.2% compared with only 65.6% On May 25 last, and with 69.9% June...
...preliminary estimate of crop yield for this year was placed at 12,144,000 bales, which exceeds any crop's actual production back to 1920, when 13,439,603 bales resulted. In 1921 cotton crop production was only 7,953,641 bales; in 1922, 9,761,817 bales; and in 1923, 10,128,478 bales. The preliminary estimate of the acreage planted in cotton also showed an increase of 1,702,000 acres, or 4.4% over last year...
...famed Banana, Song, however justifiable in 1923, is completely out of place this year. This is not so much due, however, to crop conditions as to the late Spring in the U. S. Ordinarily demand at the fruit stores begins in April, and exceeds the supply until about July 4. But consumers do not eat bananas in sleet storms and cold weather. This year the banana dealers' yellow bunches dangled under their canvas awnings in vain. Importation into New York by one large company is only about half of normal, while prices on a bunch are down from...