Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt's plea for crop insurance comes as a pleasant indication that the long-heralded farm program is not an idle promise, and that something will at least be attempted before the next harvest period. Never has assistance to the farmer been so vital to the welfare of the whole nation as at the present time. With returning industrial activity and the mid-winter flood disasters combining to make many a farmer's prospect seem proportionately gloomier than that of his countrymen, some measure is inevitable, and the one suggested by the President appears logical and sound...
Only a Federal agency can have sufficient resources to swing a crop insurance scheme. Consequently, there will be every opening for misuse of funds and playing of politics unless Congress makes express provisions to counteract them. Again, the lawmakers must provide for adequate appraisal of land values, as farmers could otherwise overstate their expected yield. A well-considered law must allow for these and allied abuses, and seek to minimize the wastage due to government handling of the job. Otherwise the costs of the gigantic scheme could be utterly prohibitive...
...such limitations as these are thoughtfully recognized by the legislators in Washington, a perfectly rational and practical system of crop insurance appears possible. There is every cause for the desirability of stabilizing farm buying power in this way, and the heartening of farmers through protection against hail, drought and grasshoppers...
...Orleans, succeeded in getting on Associated Press wires a story that he had found a sunspot 125,000 miles long. Few days later Mr. Lawton wrote to the Naval Observatory in Washington, chided it for not publicizing this gigantic blotch. Observatory officials coughed politely, admitted sighting an unusually large crop of spots but none of the size mentioned by Lawton, declined to engage in controversy with him pending scrutiny of his scientific credentials...
...manufacturer of chocolate coatings had skimmed the froth from the boiling cocoa pot. But the usual candidates for the role of "titanic forces" are "British interests"-an old bogey of the U. S. cocoa market. Because they are better informed than anyone else on the important West African crop, British traders have been known to take U. S. speculators for a fast ride. Last week cocoa men were passing around a story that United Africa Co. Ltd., greatest single trader and shipper on the British Gold Coast, was depressing the market so that it could buy its beans from...