Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What started the onion boom was a Government forecast of a short crop-27.2 million sacks v. 31.6 million last year-and a trader's hunch that the Govrnment forecast was too high. As he started to buy, traders who were caught napping two years ago when a short crop swept the price up from $3.80 to $6.50 jumped...
While he was gone, embarrassing questions began to crop up. Was it essential for General Omar Bradley to go pheasant hunting in a special Air Force plane? Was it vital to national defense for Navy Secretary Francis Matthews to fly his whole family to a military ceremony in Honolulu? Did Vice President Alben Barkley have to use a B-17 to take a three-piece band to a party for his St. Louis friend, Mrs. Carleton Hadley...
...Angeles had built 835 new classrooms for elementary pupils alone, then found that that was not nearly enough. Detroit had raised $55 million for new grade schools, but it knew that its troubles were just beginning. "This part is easy," said one school-board member. "Just wait till this crop hits the high schools...
With Lausche out, the field was open but the crop was poor. The C.I.O. wanted Murray Danforth Lincoln, a lanky, transplanted Yankee, executive secretary of Ohio's Farm Bureau Federation. The trouble with Lincoln, who had voted from the beginning for Franklin Roosevelt, was that he was a registered Republican...
...quit picking peaches because they could not find a market. Other farmers across the U.S. had also become apprehensive of plenty. In California, pears and early Gravenstein apples went to waste. In Iowa, many a farmer's cribs were still crammed with last year's record crop of corn. This year's crop was nearly...