Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prize money was just another cash token of an operating success that started when he was 13. By then he had saved up enough money to buy a pig. A little later he borrowed money to finance an eight-acre cotton patch; paid off his debt with his first crop...
Comeuppance. Near Swift Current, Sask., Bachelor-Farmer Alfred Bessant lived alone in his cellar through 16 profitless, bad crop years, grew a $2,500 crop this year, came out of the hole...
After four weeks of stormy haggling, the Cubans had gone home emptyhanded. The mission of sugar-growers and mill-owners had come to Washington in August to negotiate a new U.S. contract for their five-million-ton 1945 sugar crop. Their objective: to get the U.S. to jack up its offer ½ a lb. higher than the wartime sugar price established in 1941-2.65? a lb. Cubans say their production costs have soared 100% or more since war began; they can no longer afford to sell virtually their entire crop to the U.S. at the old price. But the Commodity...
...Current Crop. All but drowned in the postwar hubbub was the West Coast's brand-new American Football League, which was finding college box-office competition a hard nut to crack. Last week, a 4,000 handful turned out to see the Los Angeles Mustangs meet the Los Angeles Wildcats in a league tussle, whereas 60,000 fans had braved 105° temperatures the day before to watch the University of Southern California play U.C.L.A. This month, further complicating the customer quest, the four-year-old Pacific Coast Football League swings into action...
...waiting for some proof of the $50 million gift from the taxpayers. Bankhead turned on the heat; Marvin Jones hastily ordered the Commodity Credit Corp. to start buying cotton at parity, beginning Oct. 2. This was believed to be a temporary policy of expediency, to apply to the 1944 crop only -but the consternation in the trade was the commodity news of the week...