Word: crop
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This may make Finland sound grimmer than it is. The Finns are cheerful, well dressed and, judging by the violent exercise they indulge in, well fed. They have their freedom. To people whose fiber is almost as hard as the granite ledges that crop out all over their country, that means a lot. The Finns kept their national character and language for centuries under the Swedes and the Czars. They are keeping it now. Said an American who knows them: "These people are nobody's satellites. They're Finns...
...Texas farmers began threshing the greatest winter wheat crop in U.S. history this week, the news for the world's hungry was good. Best estimates place the crop at 1.3 billion bushels, more than double any average prewar year. But the chances of starting the wheat on its way promptly are worse than ever. Fewer boxcars are available than in the worst war years. In the Texas Panhandle, farmers are already scouting around for circus tents to cover the grain on the ground until the railroads can move it. As the harvesters move north in the next month...
...consider a bill to end sugar rationing immediately. But the Department of Agriculture has not committed itself on the bill. Its chief concern is to get housewives to buy sugar for canning now so that sugar shipments will not tie up freight cars needed to move the bumper wheat crop later...
Nevertheless, there is more sugar on hand than at any time in the last four years, thanks chiefly to a bumper Cuban crop of 6.1 million tons. In all, the U.S. expects to get 6.8 million tons of sugar, or almost half of this year's total world sugar supply of 15 million tons. The U.S. share is 1.4 million tons more than last year. The supply, enough for 85 to 90 pounds per capita, will still be short of the prewar consumption of 96.5 Ibs., and sugar men think that present demand is enough to push consumption...
...appropriations committee tore a $383 million chunk out of the Agriculture Department's budget. Funds for the school-lunch program, crop insurance, the land-use and conservation program were sharply sliced. The appropriation for insurance of farm-tenant mortgages was cut from $15 million to $1,000,000. Secretary of Agriculture Anderson wailed that the cut (32%) would deprive veterans of the money needed to start farming, deprive small farmers of subsistence loans, destroy the price support of perishable farm products...