Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year ago Huey Long proposed that rhubarb and spinach be declared basic commodities, but it remained for Representative Lindsay Carter Warren to propose a "Potato Tax Act of 1935." It remained for pious Representative Ralph Owen Brewster (former Governor) of Maine to enounce that "Potatoes are the Forgotten Crop." It remained for William Edgar Borah, most famed member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to take himself to AAA's hearings on potato restriction and portentously declare "Idaho raises a very fine potato. I am not quite familiar with the plan Mr. Warren has offered...
...possible that those plays will have some effect if the Crimson players continue on their almost record crop of penalties. Especially the H line, which must also be given the credit for furnishing the life of the game and securing the greatest number of goals, has spent far too great a proportion of its time it the box. Things were looking up considerably in the game with Dartmouth on Saturday, however, as the Crimson sextet only gathered three penalties...
...houses, doing an extensive business in castor seeds, linseeds, peanuts. Edward Anthony Strauss and his colleagues had simply made the mistake of going short of peanuts. Instead of the surplus they had anticipated, there was an acute decline in peanut shipments from India and alarming reports that the new crop was to be 30% under the previous year. The price of peanuts in London jumped 24% the first three weeks in January, was last week still 16% above the Jan. i level. The price of castor seeds and linseeds, in which the company was also short, had fluctuated violently. Soon...
Harvardians who wander off to the big city in the interim between last exam and first class will find plenty to amuse and stimulate them in the current crop of Broadway theatrical predictions. Not counting musicals, nor the repertory or limited engagement group, the current season has brought forth five plays of hit proportions, beginning with Kaufman's "Merrily We Roll Along," and climaxed by last Monday's Guild opening of "Escape Me Never," starring Elizabeth Bergner...
Last week's crop of prophecies was the shortest in years. Five years of defeat, frustration and ridicule had taught businessmen to avoid mouth-filling generalities, to stick to harmless forecasts about their own industries. Samples...