Word: crop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sturdy French Algerian and Tunisian farmer in one of Rome's old granaries had their crops gathered, their barns bursting with a big wheat surplus before harvest began in France. There it was three weeks late because last autumn's freezes killed out 25% of the winter wheat which then had to be resown. Adequate snowfalls and spring rains helped, but the French wheat crop will be well under last year's, though ample for French needs even had 268,000,000 bushels not been carried over. The great French need was not wheat but field-hands...
...tendered on the point of a bayonet, a Japanese yen-backed note from the new Japanese-dominated North China Federal Reserve Bank is not honored at face value. Last spring in the Japanese-occupied areas of North China, the Chinese mysteriously forgot to plant their usual cotton crop. Unless the Japanese can debauch the Chinese in captured sectors with opium, as they are trying to do, this sort of passive resistance might go on for decades...
...ribbon to wear on his chest. So French soldiers are among the most decorated fighting men in the world. Finding that Napoleon had judged human nature right, France now gives 25 kinds of civilian decorations,* medals (and lapel ribbons) for rearing big families, turning out a good beet crop, running a business-like prison, doing an average job of teaching school (about half of all French teachers have the Palmes Académiques), putting out fires, collecting taxes...
Commodities: The commodity price index fell again to 75.6, a new 1939 low. Leading the commodity retreat was wheat, reacting over 3? a bushel from the fading of spring's normal crop scare news. The wheat crop will be short, but 1938's prodigious carryover (153,537,000 bushels, which will reach an estimated 275,000,000 bushels in a month) is hanging over the wheat pit, giving farmers a double loss through a low price on a small crop...
Belgium suffered at 95°, and only Congo officials home on leave thought the temperature bearable. Lack of rain hurt the Belgian fruit crop. Karlstad, Swedish manufacturing town, had the hottest weather for Scandinavia (86°), and Stockholm consumed 183,400 cubic meters (48,417,600 gallons) of water in one day. Drought meant bad crops and forest fires for Sweden. Copenhagen reported three deaths from sunstroke...