Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nation's growers of cotton, rice, and flue-cured tobacco, 2,500,000 strong. They were asked to give a straight Yes or No on the strictest controls possible under the Agricultural Adjustment Act: The imposition of prohibitive taxes on any producer who markets more than a fixed crop quota in 1939. To the question of how the farmers of the U. S. feel about the most ambitious farm program ever undertaken on their behalf, the Election might spell out a huge Yes, No, or Maybe...
...only for flue-cured tobacco.* By voting No, tobaccomen rejected Secretary Wallace's offer to fix a rigid quota for each seller, levy a penalty of one half the market price for excess sales. By voting No, they also ruled out loans on whatever portion of their 1939 crop they may keep off the market. Unaffected by the Election was the "voluntary" half of the farm program-acreage restriction which growers of all three crops make in return for soil conservation payments and other cash benefits...
...longer private stay, headed back to Bucharest. On the way the King was expected to call on Chancellor Hitler and German economic experts, who will probably lose no time in reminding him that a recent German offer to develop Rumanian oil fields and purchase Rumania's entire wheat crop for the next two years, in exchange for German manufactured goods, still stands. But they have no money to lend...
...Union's last famine, in 1933, was caused by peasant opposition to Dictator Stalin's collectivization program. The present agricultural difficulties seem to be caused: 1) by the chaotic conditions in the much-purged Commissariat of Agriculture; 2) by an attempt to impose on recalcitrant farmers a crop-alternating scheme...
...waking up, he apologized and explained that, the night before, he stayed up until 6 o'clock in the morning-he attended a conference. Before coming to him, we went to see the chief of our department; he was sleepy, too, and for the same reason.' " The crop-rotation scheme, Izvestia revealed, is no nearer realization now than it was in the spring, and Sotsialisticheskoe Zemledelie (Socialist Agriculture} gave a ready explanation for the delay: the "enemies of the people" formerly in charge of the Commissariat made a hit-or-miss job out of allotting land...