Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bright Sweater. Cheke's pamphlet turns around the ordeals of Mr. John Bull, the Third Secretary to Sir Henry Sealingwax, ambassador to mythical Mauretania. To the old ambassadors John Bull is typical of Britain's new crop of appointees now at their first posts abroad. Long on economics, finance and social problems, often with brilliant war records, they are, by such standards as Cheke's, still social roughnecks...
...English butler are finished," she told Manhattan Gossipist Charles Ventura. The time has passed when young footmen, who normally graduate to butlerhood, "take . . . pride in their profession; they won't take the time to learn it. When this generation dies out, there won't be any new crop...
Glut. Brannan could have found cogent reasons just by glancing at his department's statistics. There was more grain than the U.S. could eat, store or ship abroad. The Government had already taken a fourth of the bumper wheat crop off the market, by loans and purchases under its support plan. It expected to have to do the same with as much as 600 million bushels of corn-more than is normally sold commercially in a year. But with most storage space filled, a huge amount of "free grain" not encompassed by the support program had been thrown...
...soon be exhausted, and that grain prices would then hold steady. But that was only a hope. The supply of free wheat alone on Jan. 1 was 514 million bushels-more than the U.S. normally eats in a year. Barring drought, the U.S. would probably have another bumper wheat crop, which could run the carryover to 600 million bushels in 1950. And Argentina and Australia already had so much wheat that they were cutting export prices...
...calendar. Exactly a year ago, grain prices had tumbled in the worst shakeout in seven years. Last week traders had more than the calendar to make them nervous. The Department of Agriculture announced that it would not put any acreage restrictions on this year's corn crop. With the market already glutted, that seemed to mean another big crop and still lower prices ahead...