Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Russia's city dwellers, always hungry for better times, drew premature cheer from news of the kolkhozes (collective farms). The bread grain crop of wheat and rye was more than half harvested and it had been a good year. Though the Government had said nothing, plain citizens nourished the hope that the long-deferred end of bread rationing might be in sight...
...Kansas City, big, hard-driving Kenneth Spencer, whose Spencer Chemical Co. has leased the Government's $20 million Jayhawk Ordnance Works (TIME, June 17, 1946), turned to rain making as a possible stimulant for his dry-ice sales. Spencer hired a crop-service plane, succeeded in bringing showers to Mission, Kans., Excelsior Springs, Mo. This week five farmers from Burlington, Iowa hired the same plane to make rain over their arid 1,500 acres; it made rain all right-over a golf course, leaving their farms still...
Said , bulletheaded, 76-year-old President Juho Paasikivi, who still swims in the ice-cold bay beneath his villa and who admires solid sculpture: "We now have unrationed meat, and it has worked very well. The farmers get higher prices. Our crop in 1946 was 63% of prewar, but it should be up to 70% for 1947-and remember we lost 12% of our arable land under the treaty. We are expanding industrial production. Our Communists are sometimes noisy but so far they have not succeeded in forcing nationalization beyond the point of maximum effectiveness...
...hungry capital. Little boys resumed their sale of stuffed, varnished frogs. But Paraguay, too poor to afford a sewage system or central water works for its capital, would be a long time recovering from the latest revolution, its 27th in 41 years. Much of the nation's bumper crop of cotton, earlier estimated at 40,000.tons, had gone unpicked because workers feared conscription. Cattle had been slaughtered or driven away; production of quebracho extract, an export staple used in tanning, had dropped...
Corn Casualties. Hot weather in August shriveled corn crop prospects by another 223 million bushels. The Department of Agriculture put the total 1947 yield at 2,437 million bushels, the lowest since 1936. As a result, meat supplies will probably be sharply reduced next year, meat prices sharply raised...