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Word: cropped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crop damage, mainly the uprooting of dry young wheat in western Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle, was estimated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSERVATION: Bowl Dusted | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...farmers hold their crop in the barns, while the Trust offers bribe prices to growers who do not belong. When recalcitrant growers refuse to join the Association, they are warned. After two warnings, masked night riders drag them out of bed, force them to destroy their own plant beds. If they still play ball with the Trust, their barns are burned. When the Trust strikes back, 2,000 armed growers march into Bardsville, seize the telephone and telegraph offices, lock up police and firemen, burn the brand-new million-dollar Trust warehouses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tobacco War | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

Although the New Deal has striven through AAA I and II to cut crop production for six years, the nation has been steadily faced by a great economic, political, humanitarian dilemma: agricultural plenty existing side by side with human want. To resolve it without dislocating business has proved a ticklish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Ticket Dole? | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

Farmers received their due from Harry Hopkins, who said: "Our farm homes receive less than 10% of the national income and on that they must bring up about 30% of the nation's children . . . the most important crop raised on the farm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Restoration in Iowa | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...from the plant to take root. Man came to attach more importance to the fibre than to the seeds, cultivated cotton for more fibre. The U. S. now raises too much cotton lint, not enough cottonseed.* But there is no economic reason for not raising cotton as a seed crop, since cottonseed oil makes oleomargarine, shortening, soap, and the cottonseed cake which remains after the oil is squeezed out makes good fodder for cattle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cottonless Cotton | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

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