Word: crop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...becoming a bigger competitor of America in the world wheat markets; India's surplus is estimated at 90,000,000 bushels, compared with only 9,000,000 last year; the European countries, even including Russia, are showing greater production. The American Farm Bureau Federation estimates the American wheat crop this year at 817,000,000 in addition to a carry-over from the last crop of about 140,000,000 bushels, or almost a billion bushels all told. Our home consumption, including seed wheat, and our exports for the coming year are estimated by the same authority as about...
...Fashioned Piety. Governor McLeod, of South Carolina, issued a proclamation calling for a day of prayer for deliverance from the boll weevil, which threatens to destroy the state's cotton crop. While the prayers rise to heaven, airplanes are also ascending, and spraying the fields with hydrocyanic gas and calcium arsenate...
...spoke with him for two hours in one of his hotels which bore signs at the door, French and Belgians Will Not Be Accommodated. Stinnes said that his workmen in the Ruhr continually urge him to allow them to rise up and throw the French neck and crop out of the country, but he always counsels nonresistance." Peaceful though the occupation of the Rhineland may look on paper, it is real war in the feeling it arouses in the people of the territory...
...aggressive Mr. Wannamaker, President of the American Cotton Association, has again launched his favorite project-to withhold the cotton crop until it reaches a price level where farmers can make what he calls "a legitimate profit." This suggestion is extraordinary enough, coming as it does in this day of practically 30-cent cotton. But the means by which it is to be realized are more extraordinary still. Mr. Wannamaker's "plan" is to have individuals, clubs and corporations buy many bales of cotton, store them in warehouses, and borrow on the warehouse receipts at banks for a period...
...from all sides, have taken heart and are stating their side of the case with vigor. One prominent Sugar Exchange member is reported to have declared: " Those who advocate a boycott on sugar, the politicians and publicity seekers, have no idea whatever of the present status of the sugar crop. Most of them, as a matter of fact, don't know where our sugar comes from. But they all join in the hurrah of 'cut down on sugar,' mostly for the reason that it gets their names in the papers...