Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outstanding secondary school swimmers have turned up in this year's crop...
...price controls, allocation and rationing of scarce materials; stronger rent controls; strong federal support of farm prices; ratification of an agreement which would guarantee U.S. farmers an export market of 185 million bushels of wheat a year for the next five years; government construction of more grain bins; crop insurance: a broad program of soil conservation, rural electrification, reclamation; development of more TVAs...
...localities. His new pictures, on exhibition in a Manhattan gallery last week, owed nothing to the prevailing distortions of Paris: they were in the straightforward, realistic U.S. tradition of Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper. Bleak as a December dawn, they seemed a startling contrast to the cheerful, crop-headed young man who had painted them...
Secretary Brannan had urgent politico-economic reasons for wanting CCC to ship the grain. With the biggest crop in history piling up, much of it was without storage and therefore ineligible for Government loans, a form of price support. If private traders took over EGA buying, they would be likely to buy stored grain, pass over the other grain. On the other hand, CCC may be able to buy the unstored grain and ship it out before farmers have to sell it below support levels...
Molasses in January. In the largest deal of its kind in history, Publicker Industries, Inc. contracted to buy the remaining 1948 crop of Cuban molasses-between 80 million and 100 million gallons. The supply, valued at more than $15 million at current prices, will help Publicker keep its position as the No. 1 producer of industrial alcohol. Said one company official: it will also eliminate "any possibility of an anti-freeze shortage this year...