Word: crop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Juan Fernandez Islands, 300 miles off the Chilean coast, the lobster season was in full swing. From now until August, the goletas (sloops) would bring into Valparaiso some 150,000 lobsters-the island's one cash crop. Shipped to Santiago or flown over the Andes to Buenos Aires, the langostas (unlike the Maine lobster, they are clawless) would bring fancy prices ($2 to $3) in the toniest restaurants of the Chilean and Argentine capitals...
...Cash Crop. The town centers around the wharf and the offices of the three lobster companies that hold lobstering concessions from the government. All the dories on the beach are owned by the companies, which supply gear and gasoline for boats with outboard motors. Each dawn the lobstermen go out to set and pull their pots, returning at dusk to sell their lobsters to the companies for ten pesos (30?) apiece. For the fishermen and their families, life in the Juan Fernández is monotonous and lonely, and the sea is full of danger. Even so, they say, they...
...help of an ex-alcoholic Korean carpenter, whom Ye reformed.Two rooms have been added to one end of the little church, one for Ye to live in, another for his study. The steeple was twisted by a high wind and must be somewhat altered in design.There is a cabbage crop planted on the plot of land (donated by the U.S. Army) where the factory will be, and the foundation-laying must await the harvest...
Seven Faculty members have been elevated to higher professorial rank in the last two days, Provost Buck announced yesterday as he listed the University's annual spring crop of promotions...
...After a dismal year as a prep-school Latin teacher, he taught English at Vanderbilt (with time out for World War I) for 23 years. Until the Fugitives woke him from his "dogmatic slumber," Ransom was a conventional teacher who took few pains to inspire his students. The bumptious crop of younger Fugitives stimulated him both as poet and teacher. Ransom, say his admirers in the Sewanee Review, did not try to dominate; he attained more enduring effects by the example of his intellectual decorum, the flavor of his conversation, the elegance of his craft...