Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...metier and doesn't choose to turn again to aesthetic writing. Only last week he refused Burton Rascoe's suggestion that he reprint in book form his famous Raegan Stories that appeared in 1913 or thereabouts in the Mencken-Nathan Smart Set. He doesn't want those sophisticated tales cropping up now. If they were reprinted, his name would carry them into thousands of American homes, where it is a parental maxim that a Terhune book is fit for the children to read. Then the Smart Set vein would crop out?and that would be the last of the Terhune...
...Tugwell Line. Over a national radio hook-up Undersecretary Rexford Guy Tugwell turned the flammenwerjer of his wrath on those who use Drought as an argument against crop reduction...
...depend. It organized every available man for counterattack on "Tory" critics. Over the radio, Assistant AAAdministrator Victor A. Christgau declared that without AAA "farmers would be driven from the land." George E. Farrell, chief of AAA's wheat section, claimed that the coincidence of the drought and AAA's crop reduction program had saved farmers $22,500,000: "When drought comes it doesn't make any difference how many acres you plant. It gets 'em all. It costs about $3 an acre to plant wheat. Farmers left 7,500,000 acres idle to comply with AAA contracts...
Wheat prices in Chicago began to advance around May 1 when wheat was 78¢ and traders were beginning to see the effects of drought. Last week futures were selling at 97¢ to $1.05, spot at $1.12. Liverpool traders were more complacent: early reports on the Canadian crop had been favorable and Argentina, ignoring her export quota fixed at the London Wheat Conference last August, had plenty of wheat for sale. The Liverpool price at the end of May was around 72¢. Not until mid-June, when drought news from Canada became alarming, did Liverpool traders begin to push the price...
Statistically the biggest unknown factor last week was Russia, world's largest wheat-grower. Careless harvesting methods cost Russia nearly a quarter of her last year's crop. This year spring heat waves ripened the southern fields early, forcing peasants to harvest by night under the glare of electric lamps. Best estimates were that the total crop would be 700,000,000 bu., 30% less than last year. Several million bushels have already been imported from Argentina and Australia to Vladivostok to feed Russian troops concentrated in East Siberia...