Word: crop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because the "day of general thanksgiving to Almighty God for the bountiful crop and other blessings" fell on Monday this year, most Canadians made a long weekend of it. In Ontario, crisp, clear weather favored the football games- Hamilton's Tigers lost to Toronto's Argonauts, 13 to 1. Over the northern prairies lay a heavy overcast; "fowl weather," said the gunners, setting out to shoot geese or ducks for the holiday table. At Mile 450, on the railway to Churchill, the Rev. W, E. Williamson hoped to bag a caribou, planned to share the meat with...
Almost all Kansas farmers had made plenty. Estimates of 1947's value of crops and livestock topped $1.5 billion, up $400 million from last year's record farm prosperity. That gain alone exceeded the total farm wealth produced in the state in many a thin year. Wheat was the bonanza; 1947's phenomenal crop and 1947's soaring prices added up to more than $660 million for Kansas wheat alone...
...problem as well as an unaccustomed pleasure. He had dollars galore and wanted no more-for the present. More dollars would merely put him in a higher income-tax bracket. Thus, the average farmer held back from market more wheat than usual (near Larned, one farmer kept his entire crop-about $175,000 worth at last week's prices-in storage). Normally the Kansas holdback, a form of insurance against a poor yield the next year, is about 30% of crop. This year elevators and farm bins are clogged with about 150 million bushels of wheat...
Bitter End. The speculators had counted on an easing of the shortage Oct. 1, the beginning of the cocoa crop year. Looking for a price drop, they had sold cocoa short. But when no British and Brazilian cocoa was forthcoming, the speculators had to buy cocoa already in the U.S. This, some traders estimated, accounted for at least 10? in the price rise and it played straight into the hands of the British. They are expected to put the new crop on sale within the next two weeks and will probably get peak prices...
...lost the preceding fortnight. Some wholesale food prices, which had started to drop in keeping with the drop on the exchanges, also went up again. The rise continued as trading opened this week. As long as the Government insisted on enormous food exports, despite the bad corn crop, traders were sure grain prices would remain high or go higher...