Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said an old farmer: "We will get along. The rice crop is good. American planes will keep the Japs away...
...Walls' first crop came in 1936, a year of drought and despair. Iowa was seared by sun and heat. The rivers dried up, the corn wilted, the oats burned into worthlessness. Wall sold the two brood sows for $30 to pay Doc Brinker's bill for delivering Joan, their first baby. Then he went on WPA to earn money for food and interest on the bank loan...
While the 1943 crop was below the 1938-42 average, 1944-5 crop is expected to top last year's by 20%. Thus manu facturers can continue to draw on present stocks and continue to maintain production at record-breaking levels, while the U.S. continues to smoke more than ever...
...sinecure; 55-year-old Fred Gurley will earn every cent of his $60,000-a-year salary. The Santa Fe has a tough year ahead. Its Western divisions are snowed under by a record wheat crop...
...broke with 167-year tradition, and began recruiting Negroes, the marines, white and black, have carried on with none of the public race troubles that beset the vastly larger U.S. Army (TIME, July 10). Said one white Marine officer of this phenomenon: "We take only the cream of the crop, and they are all so damn proud to be marines...