Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hospitals springing up everywhere; in the dust-streaked tractors clanking through the spring plowing. He read of it in the plans for a 6-billion-electron-volt atom-smasher at the University of California (see SCIENCE). He heard it in the farmer's talk of a bumper wheat crop-the fifth bumper crop in a miraculous...
Perhaps more significant than the fate of these ten is the fate of American movies. The motion pictures under fire were some of the better productions of the poor Hollywood crop. After this demonstration of muscle by the Thomas committee, the normally conservative movie makers, fearful of their delicate public relations, will become increasingly hesitant to make intelligent movies about any controversial problems. Stripped of all its garnishing this becomes though control, and thought control in the hands of men such as Mr. Thomas is more than dangerous, it is suicidal...
Following this prediction, Robbins three-man Council group has ordered some dozen precautionary measures for Monday's election, so that the administrative errors which made the last balloting void will not crop up again...
...been reached in the Near East, where man-made deserts occupy large areas that were once fertile and populous. Like most conservationists, Osborn is something of an alarmist. He tends to underestimate the ability of modern agricultural science to revive maltreated soil, make deserts productive by irrigation and increase crop yields by fertilization and better farming methods. He doesn't think much of the tropics, though modern methods can make tropical soils produce large amounts of food. He neglects the very real possibility of making food from waste cellulose and of increasing enormously the harvest...
...crop of injuries sprang up in the last three days and again threatens the Crimson's midfield depth, a problem which on Wednesday had seemed completely solved...