Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corn crop was one of the heaviest in recent U. S. history; the tobacco crop broke records; the wheat crop, already in (with spring wheat covering the fields of Minnesota, the Dakotas, Montana, with a yellowish-brown six-inch stubble) was estimated at 736,115,000 bushels...
Positions are not definite under the Blaik system. A man may be listed as halfback in the program and crop up as fullback or even quarterback on some plays. But the men mentioned above are the outstanding contenders for the four berths...
Tobacco's bad year followed a good year. Last December, when tobacco growers were called to a crop-control referendum, they had just finished disposing of a big (800-million-pound) crop at the satisfying average price of 22? per pound. They sneered at the compulsory quotas Henry Wallace wanted them to vote and proceeded to plant a far greater acreage this year than quota allotments would have permitted. Fine weather favored the growing, and up sprouted 1,014,000,000 pounds of fat tobacco, 200 million pounds more than a maximum year's consumption...
...When the crop came to market late this summer, prices staggered "under the surplus. By September 8, farmers were in a funk; the bellowing auctioneers were knocking down the tobacco at 14½?. Then Britain's big Imperial Tobacco Co., which normally buys a third of the flue-cured crop, stepped out of the market. For one more week the farmers hung on and watched their crops going at ever lower prices. When prices broke through 11? (half of last year's price), they desperately closed the markets...
...ransom was going to be. North Carolina's big, handsome Commissioner of Agriculture William Kerr Scott suggested sadistically that the markets be reopened, the farmers left to squirm. Henry Wallace announced in an AAA pamphlet: ". . . It would not be sound to undertake price-supporting measures for the 1939 crop unless farmers indicate a desire to regulate marketings for the 1940 crop." Warehousemen held meetings, shouted for crop control, promised to use their influence on the farmers...