Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Census Bureau last week produced a new estimate of the U.S. population, as of Jan. 1, 1945: 139,126,000. A bumper crop of war babies was Census' explanation for the 7,000,000-plus increase since 1940. Looking ahead, Census predicted a peak population of some 163,500,000 in 1975-1980, then a slow decline...
Empty bellies sharpen memories. In 1942 official propaganda promised that the U.S. would put aside part of each year's crop to meet Europe's relief needs, pledged enough U.S. food stocks to "win the war and write the peace...
...Wheat crop estimates are 50 million bushels (1933-42 average, 156 million...
...well as Argentina's, wheat customers, including Britain and the Middle East. At present the U.S. and Canada have the wheat but not the shipping. New Zealand. While the gods laughed, New Zealand got too much of what Australia lacked. Hopes for a bumper wheat crop this season were dashed by floods which washed out fields...
...Dakotas the worried farmers doubted that the railroads could win. There were just not enough cars to move the mountains of grain before millions of bushels of high-moisture-content corn, now piled in the open, rotted in the spring rains. And by late May a new crop of winter wheat would be ready...