Word: crop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prince & Pauper. The feast-&-famine industries were really feasting in these days of shortages. In the packing industry, Wilson & Co. stock sold at 16¾, only 2½ times 1947's per-share earnings. Sugar stocks, depressed by the fear of a big Cuban crop, were about as low. Others...
Melting Sugar. In New York, where trade in world sugar futures was resumed for the first time since 1941, the price fell to a low of 3.63? a lb. (Last August the world spot price had been 8.5?.) The big fall was due to prospects of a huge crop in Cuba, little buying by Europe and a 1948 U.S. import quota smaller than Cuba had hoped for. In a few months, after U.S. refiners had used up their stocks, the drop would bring down retail prices...
...speech was frankly addressed over the heads of his audience to the nation's voters. It was as frankly designed to cut the ground from under his presidential rivals. There was something in it for everyone: for minorities (strengthened civil rights legislation), for farmers (continued price supports and crop insurance), for labor (a 75? minimum wage, up from 40?), for the foreign-born (admission of D.P.s...
Armed with shotguns made from steel pipe, taking four guards with them as shields, they stumbled through six inches of snow in the prison yard to the north gate. Then the crop-headed convicts, shivering in their grey prison denims, battered off the gate lock and made a getaway...
...average: 100) from 141.5 to 162 in a year. No one disputed that the Government had to buy grain for relief abroad. But did it have to buy it the way it did? In five months, it gobbled up some 400 million bushels of grain, despite the short corn crop which put pressure under all grain prices. In one two-week period, the Government bought more grain than had been exported in an entire year...