Word: crop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...simply an interested farmer (486 acres near Pawling, N.Y.). "Farming," said Tom Dewey, "has been the principal interest in my life for the last ten years." Trim and tanned (he had been getting in his hay, he said), he talked easily about the poor state of the corn crop, the merits of artificial insemination of cattle, and got his picture taken with a prize...
Early one morning last week, Farmer Frederick Henry Dennis, 34, looked out over his 1,000-acre farm at Poslingford Hall, Suffolk. He saw a strange young man drive a big caterpillar tractor into a 20-acre field of ripe buckwheat and calmly begin to plow in the precious crop. Dennis ran towards him, cursing and shouting...
Stop That Tractor. Telephone wires quivered. Officials scurried. In the buckwheat field the implacable plow buried the rich crop in deep furrows. At 11 o'clock a flustered Farmers' Union official raced into the field. "Stop!" he cried. He brought a counter-order from the Farmers' Union, after consultation with the Ministry of Agriculture...
...planned agriculture. For two years, the Rt. Hon. Tom Williams, a Yorkshireman and Minister of Agriculture & Fisheries in the Labor Cabinet, has been struggling to enforce the plans for Britain's fields. For two years, British farmers have resisted him. Last summer Farmer Dennis had a poor wheat crop which he plowed under. The local County Agricultural Committee then ordered him to sow the same 20-acre field to a catch crop of mustard, which would also be plowed under while green to enrich the soil. County Agricultural Committees, consisting of local farmers and Ministry of Agriculture officials, have...
Happy Days. World War II gave henequeneros a new chance. The U.S., through crop purchases, pumped over $50 million into the area. A smart Syrian merchant named Cabalan Macari set up twine and rope factories and made a killing. The old families woke up to the fact that they still had their machinery, and could charge as much for disfibering agave spikes as they could get. By war's end, the number of factories had grown from 11 to 100. In the mansions on the Paseo de Montejo it was like old times...