Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...harvesting the biggest crop in history. The wheat harvest would yield more than 1.2 billion bushels. Dusty trucks were rolling along the roads with corn which is expected to total a record-breaking 3.5 billion bushels (previous record: 3.2 billion in 1946). Man and nature had collaborated in a great triumph...
Last week Worth Street was full of trouble. It started with a buyers' strike last spring. This month the Government predicted a whopping 15,169,000-bale cotton crop. On the New York Cotton Exchange, cotton futures promptly slid off $4.50 a bale. Print cloth went to 25? a yard, off 13? from its year-end high, and there were few buyers. Some thought the slump on the Cotton Exchange would bring down textile prices further. Over & over, customers told Worth Street factors: "We're waiting for lower prices...
Meat. In Chicago, steers brought $41.35 per 100 Ibs., 10? higher than the previous alltime record; hogs brought $31.85, 35? over the previous record which had stood for 15 days. But the price of corn, meat's raw material, was already coming down: prospects of a bumper crop drove corn down 6? to 13? a bushel during the week...
Deep down inside, the Californians did not feel that they needed the U.S. on their side in the Olympic games. They had a bumper crop of their own athletes. At Henley-on-Thames last week, the University of California's smooth eight-oared crew got off to a slow start, but never had to raise the beat too high. The coxswain simply called for a "big ten" (increasing the effort, but not the beat, for ten strokes) and Cal smoothly spurted into the lead. California won easily over Great Britain's Leander Boat Club and Norway...
...from 64? a bushel in 1937 to $2.96 in 1945, upsetting many a grower's cart, were admitted to futures trading on Chicago's Mercantile Exchange. By offering buyers a chance to hedge in the futures market, growers hoped to steady prices for this year's crop (estimate: 100,445,000 bushels...