Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drought will probably cost John Stiles and his Maryland neighbors: 10 to 25% in milk, 37% in corn, 50% in late vegetables. In Virginia the potato crop was hit; in Delaware the dry spell took toll of tomatoes, limas, string beans, peaches. Total estimated crop damage in states bordering Washington, D.C.: $50 million...
Grain traders estimated that during the whole 41-day lifetime of the Government guarantee, which was designed to bring more corn to market, only 35,000,000 bu. (less than 2% of a normal year's crop) were shaken out of the growers' corncribs. This was to be expected; the Government had fixed it that way by promising hog prices that made corn-in-the-hog worth $1.35-1.40 a bu. v. $1.07 a bu. (ceiling price) as grain...
North Africa was the eye opener. To the spot went OFRRO's able, balding Food Expert Herbert Parisius, 48, who quit the Agriculture Department last January in protest against its do-nothing policies. He found North Africa stripped of food by the Nazis. But the wheat crop was growing high in the sun-baked fields...
...convince Washington and London that Italy had a truly fresh government. It might be the beginning of a bid for a peace with terms, despite the Allied insistence on "unconditional surrender." Many an allied citizen, still troubled by Darlanism in North Africa, had reason to be troubled lest Savoyism crop up in the Italian peninsula. The U.S. State Department would not say whether it classed the House of Savoy as Fascist; neatly it put that issue up to the Allied military command in Italy...
...would be short of some 20 billion pounds of milk this year. He felt that it was practically sinful to use good whole milk to make butter, the least nutritious of all milk products. He calculated that enough margarine to replace butter completely could be produced from half the crop land and with an eighth the labor. He favored removing Federal and State taxes and other restrictions by which dairy-state Congressmen have long hamstrung the sale of margarine...