Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been if last week the cotton farmers in the U. S. had voted 9-to-1 against continuance of the Bankhead Act for restricting cotton production by means of a prohibitive ginning tax. Instead the vote was 9-to-1 in favor of this form of compulsory crop limitation. The "election" was unique in that to polling places throughout the South went thousands upon thousands of Negroes who had never cast a ballot before in their lives...
...farmers who grow less than two bales of cotton a year. Because President Roosevelt promised fortnight ago that next year those who normally raise two bales or less would not be required to cut their production, they had the privilege of voting to reduce the other fellow's crop without reducing their own. Result: 1,095,000 for continuing the Bankhead Act, 113,000 against...
...France conquered the U. S. art world. At the famed Manhattan Armory show arranged by the late Arthur B. Davies, the U. S. public got its first big dose of the arbitrary distortions and screaming colors which were making France's crop of artists the most spectacular in the world. The War took the public's mind temporarily off art but at its end French artists were sitting on top of the world. U. S. painters, unable to sell at home or abroad, tried copying the French, turned out a profusion of spurious Matisses and Picassos, cheerfully joined the crazy...
...Louise Paul, 15, of Wilton Junction, Iowa and Leland Monasmith, 18, of Lane, S. Dak. For the twelfth consecutive time highest grain honors went to a Canadian, with a one-peck sample of hard red spring wheat. Corn owned by an Indianan named Lux was chosen best of the crop. A ton of Clydesdale draft horse owned by Mr. Wilson's packing company was elected best of its kind...
...Still rationed by card and to be rationed until further notice throughout Russia are meat, potatoes, tea and such luxuries as butter, which at times has been classed in the Soviet Union as a medicine, available only on doctor's prescription. Because Russia has again had a bumper wheat crop, Premier Molotov talked exclusively about that, said nothing of the ruthless Stalin tactics which caused desperate peasants to massacre their cattle and saddled Russia with a meat shortage which will endure for decades...