Word: crop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story is told in terms of Bolivia's one export crop: tin. For weeks, Bolivia has been dickering with the U.S. Metals Reserve Co. for a 9?-a-pound price boost (to 76?) on the 20,000 tons it ships annually to the tin-hungry U.S. The U.S. finally offered 74?. Then the Argentines (who are granting Bolivia a $62,500,000 loan) stepped in. Argentina contracted for 8,000 tons a year at the Bolivian asking price and agreed to take 12,000 tons more if no other buyers showed...
...postwar crop of magazine hopefuls, that left only one big one still budding: Marshall Field's U.S.A., a sort of New Dealing Satevepost, which hopes to reach the stands this fall...
...sales increased, William ("Trade") and Andrew ("Mark") became so famed that bearded men all over the U.S. were greeted by one name or the other, according to the shape of their crop...
Furthermore, the Department of Agriculture forecast that, if "the present good weather holds, the 1947 wheat crop would be the biggest of all time-a whopping 1,212,000,000 bushels (v. 1,156,000,000 in 1946, the previous high). On the basis of farmers' planting plans, said the Government, corn and other grain crops would also be huge-depending on the weather. Despite this talk of bumper crops, grain prices steadied at week's end, even rose a bit. Traders hoped that, with most other nations short of grains, the U.S. would continue its heavy exporting...
...Vermont farmers harvested their great cash crop, they were characteristically gloomy about its size and the weather. (A good run requires frosty nights and warm days.) In his sugar house near Arlington, pink-cheeked old Clifford Mears grumbled: "There'll come a south wind and, by God, in a day it'll all be over. Dry up the spiles...