Word: crop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lowly potato was costing the U.S. taxpayer more & more. Last week Agriculture Secretary Charles F. Brannan reported that the Government's wartime potato price-support program, kept alive by the 80th Congress, already had cost $200 million for the 1948 crop and would cost more before the year's output is disposed of. What's more, the Government's mass buying of 1948 potatoes (now at a husky $2.90 to $3.50 per bushel) was keeping prices up in the grocery store, so taxpayers were getting socked twice for every potato they bought...
Like Father. The most successful of the young crop is lean, 28-year-old Dr. Gary Middlecoff, the Memphis dentist. When he gets set to hit a tee-shot, the stock gag with his fellow pros is: "This won't hurt a bit... Ouch!" He has a loose swing, hits a long straight ball, steadies down under pressure like a real pro, works well on the greens with his unorthodox putter (a gooseneck with the blade extending forward from the shaft instead of backward...
...news in food came out of the Agriculture Department. In its new crop forecast for 1949, the Bureau of Agricultural Economics estimated-normal or bumper crops of almost everything. BAE estimated the winter wheat crop at a whopping 1,019,686,000 bu., well over last year's 990,098,000, and second only to 1947's record 1,068,048,000 bu. With good weather and a probable 325-million-bu. carryover from the 1948 crop, the U.S. would be up to its ears in wheat by summer. What with good crops and lower prices, the Bureau...
Bert Haines, who coaches the 150 division, has almost no experienced talent to work with this year in his crop of freshmen. Not much more than spirit will be riding in the '52 150 shell this afternoon. Last year, Haines was blessed with a top notch freshman crew. Six members of it now row in the varsity lightweight craft...
Modern Convenience. In Warren, Ohio, Mrs. Laura Brandt, thinking she was using water from the rain barrel, bathed the children, washed the dishes, took a bath and then discovered when she brushed her teeth that she had used her husband's crop of maple...