Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Little Opium. Farm Congressmen were demanding higher crop prices. They knew that, if the lid were off, farmers could easily sell all they grew, at bonanza prices. Maybe a "little inflation" would be a good thing, some argued...
...East, West and Gulf Coasts were told to relax and light up-but not too much. Chief reservations: 1) Washington suggested that a "brownout" (midway between total darkness and every movie marquee ablaze) would help save electricity and fuel; 2) Army & Navy men warned that if enemy submarines should crop up in force again off U.S. coasts, out the lights must go; 3) OCD officials promised that there would still be an occasional air-raid drill...
...this journalistic natural-a good story any old day-came a crop of murders that were just the thing for an escape from war news. In Washington, a 30-year-old blonde was found in the street, shot to death. A woman who saw a man at the scene said he scurried away after yelling, "What the hell are you looking at?" A 14-year-old girl was slain in Massachusetts, a student Army nurse, 19, at Poughkeepsie, N.Y. In Lubbock, Tex. a doctor and his wife were bludgeoned to death in what an enthusiastic reporter called...
...Kentucky, where 70% of the trade's burley tobacco is grown, a late, wet spring impeded planting, and a dry summer stunted growth. The two bad seasons knocked 25,000,000 lb. off the crop, dropped it some 10 to 15% below last year's bumper harvest. In North Carolina, where 36% of all U.S. tobacco is raised, the story was the same. In the richly odorous curing barns, dopesters whispered that perhaps manufacturers might start rationing retailers...
Behind the scary shortage talk some officials saw a shrewd attempt by the manufacturers to knock out crop control of tobacco, probably the only crop which will be restricted next year. By & large, growers back crop control even now, fearing a swamped market and depressed prices in the postwar years, and there is grave doubt whether knocking off all quotas would materially increase planting. Acreage allotments have been steadily upped for three years, including a 20% hop for next year, but manpower and fertilizer shortages have kept plantings below quotas...