Word: crop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike the present crop of blues singers, most of whom indulge in manic-depressive moans, Julia sings her blues with an exuberant bounce which she calls "Kansas City style with a terrific rhythm." On her piano stands a white porcelain "kitty," where fans stuff as much as $60 a night (in addition to her $150 weekly salary). Beside her is a pitcher of water, to wash down the jiggers of bourbon which customers buy her. As a kind of jolly mother confessor to the depressed spirits in the audience, Julia usually ends up a group of songs with an invitation...
...butter scandal was that retail prices of butter, and many another staple, were at last going down. Prices of canned citrus fruits fell one-third in some cities. In Florida and Texas, prices of citrus fruits were down 50% to 60% from last year, as a bumper crop was harvested. The glut was so great, and prices so low, that packers and growers slapped a temporary embargo .on shipments, trying to keep prices up in northern markets. Eggs were down generally 3? a dozen; meat and lard dropped an average...
...farmers who strained their backs to raise wartime bumper crops when help was scarce went on to bigger & better yields when the help came back. In 1946, crop production broke all records, topping the wartime 1942 peak by 2%, and soaring 26% over the 1923-32 (pre-drought) average...
Last April she sowed a third of an acre to hard red spring wheat, harvested a 200-Ib. crop by hand in mid-July. She sieved, cleaned and polished the individual kernels. Then she spent eye-straining days with a bright light and magnifying glass hand-picking the best 15 pounds. These she shipped off in mid-November to the International Hay and Grain Show in Chicago...
...Grierson. At 48, John Grierson might well call himself the father of the documentary. A minor proof of paternity: he was the first to call the fact film a "documentary." As a documentary-maker for the British Government (1927-39), he trained most of that country's current crop of experts. During the war, he bossed Canada's wartime National Film Board and turned out the excellent series of shorts called World in Action and Canada Carries...