Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story of his organization, founded to fight Prohibition, continued after Repeal to agitate for Constitutionalism, Sound Money, Balanced Budget, and the defeat of "the forces destroying liberty and individual freedom." From Dr. Wilcox the Senators learned how the Farmers' Independence Council, equally opposed to Government bounties and crop curtailment, was founded in Washington a year ago at a meeting called by Stanley F. Morse, then employed as "consulting agricultural engineer'' by the anti-New Deal American Liberty League...
...Norris, No. 1 Congressional lover of electricity, sponsored a bill to lend $100,000,000 a year for ten years to promote rural electrification on a permanent basis. With cries of "Extravagance!" ringing in their ears, New Dealers looked at Senator Norris' billion dollar bill, suggested that he crop it down to $40,000,000 a year, then gave it their blessing. Month ago it passed the Senate. Last week it passed the House. After a conference agreement on minor amendments and the President's signature, the U. S. will be committed to a ten-year program...
Within a few days the shrewd crop estimators in the big Chicago grain firms announced forecasts averaging 537,000,000 bu. for the 1936 U. S. winter wheat harvest. Together with a spring wheat crop of perhaps 200,000,000 bu., that would put the U. S. on an export basis once again, since domestic needs run around 630,000,000 bu. annually. And steady selling drove down the price of wheat on the Chicago Board of Trade from $1 per bu. early last month to a low of 93¼? last week...
Then the U. S. Crop Reporting Board dampened all this market bearishness more effectively than rain had dampened Kansas. Predicting that 21% of all acreage sown last autumn would be abandoned, it forecast a winter wheat crop of only 493,000,000 bu. for 1936,60,000,000 bu. more than was harvested in lean 1935 but far below the 618.000,000 bu. average for the five preceding years...
...Fellowship in 1927. Louis Adamic wrote Native's Return on another in 1932. Criticized for giving assistance to big names, the Foundation has concentrated lately on little ones, although few Fellowships have gone to people without a respectable body of work behind them. This year's literary crop is notable for its youth (average age: 35) and radicalism, a fact which should go far to silence ill-willed proletarian snarls that the Guggenheim Foundation is a "capitalist racket" conceived to avoid income taxes...