Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average corn crop 1900-1936 was approximately 2,500,000,000 bu. Under the restricted acreage of AAA and its successor, the Soil Conservation Act, 2,500,000,000 bu. is also a bumper crop...
Transition- Year before last the Court's nine old men were bathed in historic limelight when they waded into the New Deal's first crop of economic measures, invalidating NRA and AAA and upholding the Government's right to cancel the gold clauses in all contracts. Last term the nine were the centre of a political death struggle unequaled since the Civil War, brought about by Franklin Roosevelt's desire to insure the constitutionality of his future legislative program by adding sympathetic Justices to the bench. The excitement of the current court term will be different...
...objects to the fact that a dozen or more small chemical companies have sprouted up to sell nutrient salts to amateurs or professionals experimenting with hydroponics. These have names like Chemi-Grow, Chemi-Crop Co., Shur-Gro Fertilizer Corp. They are legally within their rights, since hydroponics cannot be patented. The only patent which Dr. Gericke holds is for a container to diffuse the chemicals through the solution. But he argues, against the companies, that no formula works well for all plants, all climates, all conditions: and that even if they made a great variety of formulae there are other...
Over the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil for six years has hung a continual pall of acrid smoke. Meanwhile, the sky above Medellin, Colombia has been clear. Last week this fact was responsible for the death of a crop control program far older and far bigger than any ever attempted by the New Deal. With a suddenness which upset coffee cups all over the world the Brazilian Government announced that it would abandon its 31-year attempt to limit coffee production, would adopt instead a policy of open competition...
...producing nations. For that is the crux of the problem. While Brazil has rigorously and painfully sliced away at her own surplus, necessarily sacrificing some part of her share of the world market, rival nations, notably Colombia, have greedily continued to grow and sell more & more coffee. In the crop year ended June 30, Brazilian coffee exports were off 12%, those of rival nations up 11%. During the first four months of the current crop year, Brazil shipped 18% less coffee to world markets than in the corresponding period of 1936. Meanwhile shipments from other nations increased...