Word: crop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Here is a strange and bitter crop...
...Gordon of Lowell is the cream of a rather skimpy crop of outer gardeners. Gordon starts very quickly and makes fly-shagging look easy. His roamings this spring from his centerfield post carried him over about two-thirds of the Bellboy outfield. He is flanked in right field by Fran Simpson of Kirkland and in left by Bob Ridder of Leverett...
Paradoxical though the shortage is, it is precisely what the Government's cotton policy was supposed to accomplish. On the 1937-38 tremendous crop of 19,000,000 bales the Government offered to lend farmers 9? per Ib. The market prices went as low as 8?, with the result that the Government's cotton holding jumped to 11,400,000 bales. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace would like to sell some of his cotton now, but the Southern Senators, riding a rising market for their constituents, will presumably see to it that no Government lint is released so long...
...provide the mill operators with an excuse to work off inventory but it is no great contribution to the permanent solution of the U. S. cotton problem. That problem is basically the loss of foreign markets, for the U. S. used to export two-thirds of its annual crop, now exports only one-third. Alabama's Bankhead (Tallulah's uncle) has an answer in the form of export subsidies but the Senate last week turned it down, largely because the subsidies would directly benefit no one in the U. S. In defense of the defeated measure Texas...
...company (more than 6,000) included such varied personages as Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, ex-Premier Juan Negrin of Spain, Sculptor Constantin Brancusi. For them and for New York World's Fair visitors until October 1, the new Museum was decked out with a big, cream-of-the-crop exhibition of "Art in Our Time" paintings, sculpture, architecture, prints, photography, industrial art, and a historical cycle of movies from 1895 to 1935. The Rockefeller-sited Museum also acquired, for its tenth anniversary, a Rockefeller president: brisk, hefty, sunny Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, 30-year-old second son of John...