Word: crop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before the appearance of the boll weevil, the American cotton crop had reached 16,000,000 bales in one season. The demand for cotton has been good for the past two years, but so serious have been the inroads upon the cotton plant by the insect pest, that including the present year, there have been short crops for three years running. Slack demand and low prices can account in part for the small 8,000,000-bale crop of 1921; and to a much lesser extent for the 9,000,000-bale crop of 1922. During the past year, however...
...from Mindanao before setting out on a visit to Java, had vetoed a bill passed by the Legislature. This bill was to remit penalties for nonpayment of land taxes in 1923. Filipinos, like U. S. farmers, have suffered lately and are crying for aid -more however on account of crop losses than prices-but General Wood did not regard the situation as sufficiently serious to warrant abandonment of penalties for nonpayment of taxes. The Legislature is expected to rise in protest-the Governor having departed for Java. The weathermen shook their heads: " Cloudy, with more stormy weather in the offing...
Modern statesmen, too, who compare so unfavorably with those magnificent of a former day, Disraeli and Gladstone, are, for the most part, incapacitated by the Victorianism of their training for the efficient management of the modern world. The crop of discord, war, hate, and international rivalry which the ill-timed pacifism of Gladstone and the brilliant but wholly unmoral opportunism of Disraeli sowed has come to fruition, but the great Victorians failed to leave a generation capable of dealing with this dread harvest. Instead, they left a group of statesmen trained to govern a Victorian World, men stable financially, economically...
...case the point is far from proved. The evidence upon which the Times bases its argument is at best unsatisfactory and incomplete. The need for extraordinary measures is slight. "Harvard authorities" will probably continue to take action only on extreme and exemplary cases, and the crop of wild oats will probably grow less in the course of time, due to a scarcity of seed, and to an increasing sanity on the part of the sowers...
Potatoes have run to an estimated total crop of 416,722,000 bushels, or 35,000,000 more than last year. The tobacco crop is forecast at 1,436,738,000 pounds, which is 112,000,000 pounds more than the 1922 crop, and is the fourth largest crop ever raised...