Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such folk do not believe in the redistribution of wealth, in Title II of the Banking Bill (government-controlled central bank), in AAA crop restriction. Hence John Nance Garner is much closer in economic views to Carter Glass than to Franklin Roosevelt. In fact, when Garner was in the House he favored budget balancing and government economy. Nearest he got to New Deal financial views was when as Speaker he went on record for a public works program of a billion or two-and for that the Republicans booed him loudly (TIME, June...
With his broken arm still in a cast, hulking Premier Flandin held daily bedside conferences with elderly, crop-headed Finance Minister Louis Germain-Martin and Governor Jean Tannery of the Bank of France. In 1926 white-chinned old Raymond Poincaré had been able to halt a similar crisis by increasing taxes, by floating a heavy loan on the Government tobacco monopoly. But in national prestige Premier Flandin was no Poincar...
...Beans. The soy bean, seed of an Asiatic herb, is the main crop of Manchuria, a staple food for Chinese and Japanese. In the U. S. some 3,000,000 acres were planted to soy beans last year. Most of the U. S. crop goes into forage. But some is made into sauce for chop suey, some into cooking oil, some into bread for diabetics. Henry Ford's chemist, R. H. McCarroll, foreseeing industrial uses of soy beans, got Mr. Ford to plant 10,000 acres to soy beans last year, 30,000 this year. From soy bean...
...paints and varnishes. Half of the linseed oil which the U. S. requires is imported. Merely to replace that imported linseed oil would require 3,000,000 acres devoted to flax, or 750,000 acres of tung groves, calculated Mr. Williamson. He preferred tung trees because forage crops can be grown between the trees. A machine to shell the nuts and a press to extract the oil are all that a tung grower needs to make his crop ready for market...
...Holmes Herty of Savannah has fostered paper making in the cut-over pine lands and swamps of the South. So-called slash pine can be harvested when five years old and economically manufactured into coarse paper (wrapping paper, newspaper). Owners of large acreage may harvest a fifth of their crop yearly, replant the cut-over area, and have a continuing cycle of growths. Main trouble of Dr. Herty's project is that papermaking mills cost millions, which are now hard to raise...