Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Would even that whopping sum be enough to pay for the support program? As farmers wound up the harvest of the second biggest crop in U.S. history, CCC's present bankroll seemed none too fat. The corn crop alone might hit 3.5 billion bushels and granaries were still clogged by last year's 805 million bushel surplus...
...corn crop meant that a big pig crop was a certainty. Last week top hog prices dropped $1.25 per hundredweight in Chicago, to only $2 above the $18.50 level at which the Government must start supporting hogs and thus add another expense to the support program...
...Sept. i, then slipped off to $2.69. Last week it bounced back up under brisk bidding to $3.25. Nor was the end of the boom in sight. Onions usually start coming into the market for delivery n November. But if the price is rising, and the crop short, many a farmer will probably hold out his onions and the short sellers scurry to cover their sales. Commented a trader happily: "That's when prices will really begin...
...upperclass registration number falls below last year's when more than 700 sophomores, juniors, and seniors checked in at Long follow. A record crop of freshmen, however, keeps the total enrollment on a par with last year's mark of 940 students...
Back this fall with new makeup and a crop of good stories and poems, the Harvard Advocate has got off to a running start for what promises to be and interesting year. Last winter the Advocate arose reincarnated and proclaimed an end to its previous reputation of academic dehydration. The magazine began to publish interesting discussions of controversial topics; its fiction content showed improvement. And judging by the first issue of Volume 133, this new policy will be continued...