Word: crop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Havana, the slack tourist season was a headache. At a big Communist-sponsored photo display of life in the Soviet Union, a bomb went off. Black-marketers were annoyed by a general strike against them. But for U.S. housewives the news was sweet: Cuba's biggest sugar crop since shortly after World War I (an estimated 5,800,000 tons) is boiling in the refinery tanks; the U.S. will get approximately 5,000,000 tons of it. For Cubans the good news is that the sugar will bring almost 5? a pound (as compared with last year...
...addition, to Hygiene Department has not had the former crop of men with "anxieties over blue books," in the form of nausea, tremors, and other nervous conditions, Professor Bock announced, attributing this fact to a lack of the last minute examination cramming formerly practiced by a younger college group...
...spring term, Stan Priddy's undefeated Freshman hockey players will take to the ice of the Boston Arena against a quintet from Arlington High School. Since hockey is emphasized more in the New England areas than in other parts of the country, Boston high schools generally turn out a crop of good puckchasers and this year's Arlington outfit appears to be no exception to the general rule...
...addition, the Hygiene Department has not had the former crop of men with "anxieties over blue books," in the form of nausea, tremors, and other nervous conditions, Professor Bock announced, attributing this fact to a lack of the last-minute examination cramming formerly practiced by a younger college group...
...reductions in the lower brackets. The former course has been advocated by Representative Engel, who urged that exemptions be doubled. As yet, no Congressman has argued for a graduated cut, but its political advantages are so obvious and its economic implications so easily defensible that someone is certain to crop up with the idea before the argument becomes much warmer. With the GOP in power, some sort of tax relief is in the cards; the main job new consists in fixing a wary eye on the dealer...