Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus did the Senate up the House's appropriation of $835,000,000. On top of $500.000,000 which Secretary Wallace had asked for benefit payments and crop loans to farmers who restrict their acreage, the Senate gave him: i) $225,000,000 for parity payments (to recompense farmers for the difference between present prices and the higher prices of "normal" years), and 2) $203,000,000 (instead of $90,000,000 asked) to subsidize the export of crop surpluses...
Nevertheless, the price of spot cotton last week was up to 9½?, highest level in nearly two years, and 1½? above the price of cotton for delivery after the new crop starts to move in August. The shortage has become so serious that the British spinners in Lancashire protested bitterly last March and the New York Cotton Exchange last week formally recognized the squeeze...
...Trots-of-the-Month, a tuneful bumper crop, were topped by Hang Your Hfcart On a Hickory Limb (Bing Crosby; Decca), Shoemaker's Holiday (Jimmie Lunceford; Vocalion), Sing, My Heart (Will Osborne; Decca...
...This valuable regurgitation has gone on in Japan for centuries but rarely has it been such a source of interest to the outside world. For in the next few weeks enough cocoons will have come to market for the silk industry to estimate the size of the 1939-40 crop. And upon that size depends: 1) the immediate outcome of the, tightest U. S. silk squeeze in history, 2) the fate of certain speculators, 3) whether the cost of silk stockings on the leg is going to be higher this summer...
...Japanese 1938 crop (July 1-June 30, 1939) was 12½% under that of the year before. Meanwhile in the U. S. a ribbon fad and hosiery boom boosted silk consumption 13% in the ten months ended May 1, 1939 over the same period a year earlier...