Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Glut. With a bumper wheat crop in sight, the Department of Agriculture thought it time to cut down. Out to farmers, for the first time in five years, went the once-familiar call to reduce planting. If the department has its way, farmers will plant 71.5 million acres next crop year, 8% less than this year. To build up cattle herds depleted by the heavy slaughter last year, the department also asked cattlemen to reduce slaughterings 7% next year...
...Camargo is convinced, however, that the Amazon cannot thrive on rubber alone. Farmers must live during the seven years that their rubber plantations are growing to bearing age. He believes they must devote permanently at least 40% of their land to other crops. He has already found one other successful crop: jute...
Just who would replace these emergency teachers, N.E.A. did not say. The U.S. Office of Education reported that most high schools should be able to get all the teachers they need this fall. But of this year's crop of 54,000 new teachers, only 20,000 are qualified to teach elementary grades...
Traders in corn, the prime feed for U.S. livestock, had expected a good crop-but nothing like the bumper yield forecast in the Department of Agriculture's first official estimate. Conditions as of July 1 indicated a 1948 corn harvest of 3,328,862,000 bushels, 39% over last year's dried-out crop and 2% more than 1946's record...
...TIME's College Graduate Survey, which I told you about some months ago, has now been tabulated and will be released in book form next fall. Meanwhile, our Market Research department decided to find out some things-including what they thought of TIME-about this year's crop of graduating seniors in 56 well-known U.S. colleges and universities. Some of the results may be of interest...