Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Remembering the 1937 crop of traffic jams, the broken windows, the roistering funsters with water pistols and electric ticklers, most New Yorkers felt much the same way. But this week Manhattan dug in for another invasion of a round million Legionnaires and their friends, arriving from everywhere between Buenos Aires and Alaska for their 29th annual convention...
Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas, whose close attention to what interests Kansans has helped keep him in the Senate for 28 years, dutifully took to the air after some visiting farmers raved about the uses of the light plane (e.g., crop dusting). The Senator took his first flying lessons, at 82. He explained: "I think I ought to know more about these matters...
Large Incoming Crop...
Between times, he skimmed over weekly reports on the dozen odd other properties he has bought since 1940. They include 25% to 100% interests in two music publishing companies, five movie theaters in Texas, a flying school and crop-dusting service, five ranches (including an Arizona tract of 175,000 acres), Gene Autry Radio Productions, Inc. (which handles his weekly program and guest appearances). Also in the Autry investment portfolio are Tucson's station KOPO, Phoenix's station KPHO, 10% of the Phoenix Gazette, a gas station and a grocery store in Oklahoma City. The bigger properties...
Down Draft. Because Britain had cut her purchases, tobacco prices at the opening of auctions in Georgia and Florida markets of this year's crop were slightly lower, for the poorer grades, than in 1946. However, all but a few grades were above their Government support levels...