Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month ago the apple growers, of central Washington faced disaster. Ideal weather in the vast, irrigated Wenatchee, Yakima and Upper Columbia River valleys had brought them their fifth biggest apple crop. With a minimum ceiling for growers ($2.75 a box as against the 1939 top of $1.25), this whopping crop would net them their biggest gross in history...
...there were no apple pickers. Tons of prime Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, Winesaps, Jonathans and Newtowns seemed doomed to rot on the ground, depriving the U.S. of one-quarter of the 1944 apple crop. By last week an untrained army of 36.000 men, women & children (house wives, clerks, merchants, students, Mexicans, migrant farm workers, Indians off their reservations) battled time and the weather to save the apples. Public schools were closed...
...down strike until they were given coffee; two other squads took to shaking trees and thumbnailing apples. Going lightly on the Nazis, the Government cut their individual daily quotas down to 40 boxes. But generally, the P.O.W.s made little trouble, and their work meant saving the entire crop...
...Argentine. . . ." For this familiar complaint John Bracken, who is a farmer himself, had a brand-new farmer's remedy-he would replace such agricultural aids as guaranteed floor prices and special subsidy payments with a basic formula: let farm prices be fixed in advance of each crop year at levels high enough to guarantee the farmers "their proportionate share of the national income...
...long will the boom last? The Department of Agriculture estimates this year's lily-bulb crop at no more than 3,000,000. At the present rate of expansion it would take about five years, with careful cultivation, to meet the demand, and bring prices down. Even then, bulb growers believe that Japan will never regain her monopoly of the U.S. market...