Word: crop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Continued price supports and crop insurance...
...crop of Ph.D.'s were setting up laboratories all over the country...
...clochard's peace of mind. And there were more tangible benefits as well. As last year's evil winds from Siberia had helped the Kremlin's cause by promoting misery and despair, so this year's Atlantic zephyrs favored European recovery. France's wheat crop promised to more than double last year's meager yield of 3.5 million tons. French hydroelectric power was more abundant than at any time since the end of the war. Almost everywhere coal rations were proving adequate, and coal black marketeers were going broke...
Cause. The reasons for the break were obvious. The swift rise in grain prices in the last year had been caused chiefly by 1) huge Government buying for export, and 2) fears of a poor U.S. grain crop this year. Now the Government has almost completed its buying. Furthermore, 1948 crop prospects have turned out to be good, both here and abroad, and they are getting better all the time. Australia and Argentina last month shipped two and a half times as much wheat as in the same period a year before. France expects to double her 1947 crops. Russia...
...despite its flaws and its frequent failures, "Raintree County" is worth a few days' wading-through, if only to experience those scattered portions of the mass that crop up almost without warning to give the impression of real greatness. Lockridge displays direct inheritance from Welfe and from Joyee and from Dos Passes, but most of the time it is all Lockridge and the good earth of Raintree County...