Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the parity program, the Department of Agriculture was already committed to support tobacco at 39.5? a lb.* It had advanced $60 million in loans to tobacco farmers who needed cash, but did not want to sell their crop. (They hoped the price might go higher.) When the British withdrew, the Administration went further to support tobacco prices...
Started five years ago as the College's answer to the bumper crop of wartime babies, the Nursery in the finest answer for the vet Ph.D. candidate who would write his thesis without untimely interruption for block building and sundry other distractions of child-rearing...
Reputed to be the best of the crop of Boston high school teams, the boys from Bolmont were on even terms with the Freshmen for most of the ball game and displayed a long passing attack not common in prep school soccer...
Culled from a crop of 34 proposals, the three top choices edged out certain others "for which it did not seem an appeal among Alumni would be likely to bring in a sufficient return to carry out these projects," Lowell explained...
...Goes Meat. The shouts in the pit sent echoes across the prairies. Many farmers were angry because ceilings were lifted after most of their harvest had been sold. Others who had gambled on the lifting of ceilings and withheld their crop were sitting pretty, with paper profits of 20? to 35? a bushel...