Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...living. Most remarkable of a series of what even the President called costly failures was an effort to settle 200 U. S. farmers in Alaska's Matanuska Valley, where many of those settlers, still remaining after two years of tribulation, are spending this summer trying to raise a crop of winter wheat because the Government supplied them with the wrong seed. In June 1936, R. A. had a 19,700 payroll. Last July, it had been cut almost in half. When R. A. officially died last week, its major functions were transferred to a new agency called Farm Security...
...Coast in late September, he could still be back in ample time for the extra session of Congress which he had not yet quite made up his mind to call last week. One advantage of an extra session would be to give Congress a chance to study crop control legislation without one eye on the deadline of 1938 spring planting. Another would be to give it a chance to get a head-start on such important legislation as anti-lynching and wages & hours, which it should settle before adjourning next year in time for members to go home and campaign...
...some $100,000,000 worth of holes in the income tax law, the $87.662.634 Third Deficiency Bill. He also signed Congress' ''promissory note" pledging to make farm legislation the first order of business in the next session, in return for which he had agreed to cotton crop loans...
...Crimson that they've got another crop of Freshmen coming up to Harvard...
...flagship carries six captains and one rear admiral but the officers are a nice bunch. China is a pretty nice place. I ought to have a good many smackers saved by the time I get back. How is the crop...