Word: crop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year, the girl, who listens to the tipsters will come up with a gift-wrapped riding crop with handle made of deer-antler, lash of red leather, and ferrule of silver--if she doesn't fetch home something worse. Something worse is apt to be a wicker basket filled with small cakes and scented soap, each wrapped in chamois; Somaliland leopard and suede slippers, a nylon umbrella with an imported handle, or a book titled "Sporting Architecture...
...Arizona's grapefruit crop went to the canners, growers, as usual, dumped 50 tons of culls (undersized fruits) on the desert, to keep the price up. Local residents, as usual, promptly picked the dumping ground clean...
...seeing the President was to tell [him] that food commodity prices were too high, and that he should ask the special session of Congress to fix a price on wheat based on parity. I told him that, if this were not done . . . wheat could be priceless before another crop was delivered to market. I explained the fact to him and to reporters . . . that I knew only one neutral man in the U.S., and he is Uncle Sam. The Government is the only source of control which can establish a price fair to me, as a producer, and fair to others...
...potatoes a week during the long nights of rationing, patient Britons could find small comfort in the advice of the great epistler, but last week a clutch of lesser literary lights were doing their best to make up for Britain's lack of spuds with a bumper crop of digestible macaronics. Sample from the Evening Standard...
...Rickey was now growing a better crop in Brooklyn.) Whether that prompted 72-year-old Salesman Sam's last big sale, nobody knew. All Sam Breadon said...