Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prices? This was clearly shown last week. The Cabinet turned down the Department of Agriculture's proposal that only 350 million bushels of grain be exported this crop year. Instead, it approved the State Department's request for 475 million bushels. After the decision was announced, grain prices, which had begun to rise on reports of frost, spurted up sharply...
...from the suds, he gave a wild cry and sank to the floor. When the sounding brass of Hollywood got around to viewing the foaming beer, they might well have done the same thing, for this scene and the rest of "Odd Man Out" is so consistently above California crop standards as to blanch the stoutest of the film empire. Even the Irish Republican Army would be shaken...
...prices. One thing that had finally frightened the speculator into panicky selling was a decision by the Federal Government to cut purchases of grains for November export by some 50 million bu., 42% below the July-October level. And traders who had expected frost to nip the short corn crop, were upset by the Department of Agriculture's announcement that half the corn crop had matured and was safe from the frost...
...size of the wheat crop were widely known," said Anderson, "the bottom would drop out of the speculative market." The bottom did just that in the next two days. By week's end corn was down 27? a bu. to $2.38, wheat 23? to $2.57. It had been the biggest week's drop since Nov. 16 of last year. Said Anderson: "Long overdue. I hope the drop will continue...
Whether it would was hedged by many "ifs." Much depended on whether the rest of the corn crop could be harvested before the frosts. Much also depended on whether President Truman would follow Clint Anderson's proposal this week to cut the year's grain exports by a whopping 100 million...