Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week for the young. The school year was over almost everywhere; armies of cherub-like little fiends immediately began skinning knees, wading through poison ivy and falling out of trees. The 1949 crop of high school and college graduates walked out into a world that was getting colder for job-hunters all the time...
...state will buy out big landowners and, in turn, be paid for the land by small farmers with a fraction of their crop for several years. The state will pay landlords in certificates which they can use to buy shares in former Japanese industries from the government...
Everyone knew that there had been a bumper crop of wartime and postwar babies in the U.S., but no one seemed to be doing anything about their future schooling. Last week Oscar R. Ewing, head of the Federal Security Agency, warned Congress that the babies, grown to moppet's estate, were about to swamp the U.S. school system with 1,000,000 extra schoolkids a year: what the country direly needs, said Oscar Ewing, is some 30,000 extra classrooms. Ewing's estimate of the minimum needed for new school construction in the next ten years: between...
Wrong Guess. The bears had made a bad guess. They had been banking on the fact that U.S. grain elevators were so clogged with surplus wheat from last year (TIME, June 6) that farmers would not be able to store the bumper crop now being harvested-and thus get no Government support loans on it. Dumped on the market, the grain would drive prices lower...
...bushels. But the actual harvest, which so far had only gone through a few counties in Texas and Oklahoma, was surprisingly turning out anywhere from 30% to 50% smaller than Brannan's estimates (the farmers blamed joint worms, rain and hail for cutting it down). Nevertheless, if the crop proved to be as big as predicted, Brannan is expected to set wheat quotas for next year-first limitation in eight years-to cut down the wheat surplus...