Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people drought-affected; 25% of the families in Montana and the Dakotas in need of transplanting to better lands; total damage to date $5,000,000,000. Next day in the deeper drought country, the President rode past fields where cattle were munching the last dry straws of a crop that would never be harvested, drove over roads silted with the drifting topsoil of neighboring farms, passed signs which read, "You gave us beer. Now give us water." And, on -the speakers' stand at Devils Lake, leaning forward with his hands braced on the table holding microphones, he said...
...Crop restriction is bad because weather can make a farce or a tragedy...
...encountered: how not to produce too much. Just as Industry, able to produce far more than the U.S. had the money to buy, could be saved only by NRA from cut-throat competition, so farmers producing too much wheat and cotton could be saved only by AAA's crop reductions. But hardly had Dr. Tugwell last week finished telling his radio audience about the "economy of abundance" when up popped a government-paid economist to deny its existence. According to this latest New Deal critic, the "economy of abundance" is the product of "mental astigmatism" and distorted statistics, incapable...
...used by Researcher Doane in his calculations should have been the same standard at which the New Deal was aiming. Yet such an assumption was contradicted by Dr. Tugwell's statement that the U. S. has a surplus of 7,000,000 cattle. Likewise the reduction of the cotton crop by 10 million acres removed all chance that the New Deal would this year be able to supply every U. S. citizen with two outer garments...
...going to have a shortage of food in this country, with deplorable conditions, in a year to 18 months. . . . Crop reduction is ridiculous. At the present time we have an undersupply of milk, fruit, vegetables and meats. And prices of food are going to go so high that I don't know how the poor are going to pay for what they...