Word: crop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fled from the factory for a personal survey of Dubuque County under "October's bright blue sky" . . . I found everything in this part of the Upper Mississippi Valley as advertised in your excellent paper. The sumac along the river bluffs is in excellent shape, "the greatest corn crop in history" awaits picking, down in Nine Mile Island slough the advance guard of "honkers," a small band of mallards, are settled behind some willows to feed, and out somewhere beyond Flint Hill the windows of a rural school are adorned with cutout paper pumpkins. RICHARD P. BISSELL Dubuque, Iowa
...high plans for this cream of the educational crop. But at the same time "the weight of the school should be thrown heavily against all forms of snobbery," and in favor of the equal dignity of protozoologists, shoe salesmen and senators. Only then will "a boy or girl [choose] a career . . . because of a real interest, not in order to climb into a better economic or social group...
...word of Dartmouth Coach "Tuss" McLaughry, this year's crop Indians is "the best team I've had up here." The last two words in the late refer, of course, to the hills of Hanover where boys are men and men are Indians...
...wage hike). That might be enough to avert a bus strike, but such economically iffy methods were unlikely to help in settling the biggest labor dispute of all: how much Cuba's 400,000 sugar hands would be paid for harvesting the winter's cane crop...
Last year it finally turned the corner. Says Vacuum's President John M. Fox: "Why, this orange juice thing is the wonder of the grocery world. Ask anybody." Anybody in the frozen food industry agreed-and Birds Eye, Snow Crop and others began to put out their own concentrate. Nevertheless, Vacuum's sales increased so much that President Fox announced last week that the net profit for its last fiscal year...