Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Milliner Lilly Daché arrived in Manhattan with the breathless news that the women of Paris are less interested in hats than in men. The three males who crop up most in conversation when smart Parisiennes let their hair down: World Citizen Garry Davis (admired for his "courage and . . . youthful hope"), Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre (for his "unsweetened approach to modern life") and British Cinemactor James Mason ("He is just the 150% man, with ego, contrariness, even cruelty...
...last year, when a similar agreement died in the Senate. Then U.S. farmers, with wheat bringing $2.60 a bu., laughed down the proposed world price of $2 a bu. Now the price of wheat was down to around $2.25 a bu. and-with a huge carryover and another bumper crop in prospect-a price of $1.98 might soon look good...
...worth of business last year, figures trade will be a little off this year, but not much. Said Bill: "Nobody is worrying much. It's only when you're in debt that you start worrying, and I don't know anyone who is in debt." Crop prospects are good. Said Farmer Horton: "I don't look for prices to go a whole lot lower. We're not alarmed." "Nope, things don't look too bad," echoed Mrs. Horton, shutting the door of her new $385 refrigerator and flicking on the fluorescent lights...
...this will be the first nationwide nose count, extending even to Canada. Over-the-road and other heavy duty truck drivers will come first. Later checks would tap cabbies, milk drivers and other workers in the domain ("everything on wheels") that Beck covets. Major target is the lush crop of unorganized truckers carting perishables from the South...
Much of the crop had been grown, not for a booming market, but to cash in on the Government-supported price. At 32½? a lb., the support price was about 300% over prewar levels. Last year, in spite of falling demand, U.S. cotton growers had turned out the biggest crop (14.9 million bales) in eleven years, giving the U.S. a carryover of some 6,000,000 bales...