Word: crop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike the procedure in dual meets, places in this swimming convention decrease to one point for fifth. Facing the cream of the Eastern crop, and some strong national contenders, Ulen is expecting only Jerry Gorman in the 440, and Bob Aaron in the dive, to break through for points...
...merge the two. But as long as the steel wall remains, the truncated economy of the south must be made to grow new industrial limbs. The U.S. will ship in equipment and supplies. For this year, at least, it will also have to ship in food because of crop failures and lack of fertilizer...
...western countries of South America are running out of the blue chips of international exchange.Chile's war-won pile of U.S. dollars has shrunk. The dollar balances of Bolivia and Peru, never impressive, now look like peanuts. Ecuador's hoard, despite a bin-busting rice crop, has leveled...
...unusually widespread influence. As Master of Oxford's Roman Catholic Campion Hall (for more than a decade), he turned its three-story building into a religious museum of valuable paintings, rare books, tokens. His urbane charm and cultivated mind have influenced a quarter-century's crop of Oxonians and helped bring many a British highbrow into his broadbrowed church...
Cheer in the Cupboards. In high hog prices, the U.S. was paying for the post-OPA stampede of pigs to market last fall. The hog crop was so depleted then that pork would remain relatively scarce until May. There was a good prospect of $1-a-Ib. pork chops-if anyone would buy them. But there was no reason why anyone should; there was plenty of other lower-priced food to eat. The Department of Agriculture was actually worried because there was so much food in cold storage. Example: there were 140 million Ibs. of turkeys in cold storage...