Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...East Lansing, Mich, is a little community called Fertile Valley. It is so called not for its rich orchards or ripe vineyards (it hasn't any) but for its big crop of babies. (Latest count: 800, with 288 on the way.) Fertile Valley is Michigan State College's "vet village," a collection of apartments, trailers and prefabs that is as squat and ugly as dozens of other emergency campus camps from the state of Washington to Florida...
Already Eire's farmers were six weeks behind in their plowing. Only a tenth of the usual winter wheat crop had been planted, and there were no potatoes and little spring wheat yet in the ground...
...different: the whole rice crop rotted for lack of gasoline to get it to market. The following year Sayão wheedled the Government into shipping an abandoned sugar mill from the coast, set it up in Ceres, and distilled enough alcohol from the colony's sugar to keep the trucks on the road to Anapolis. So in 1946 the colony marketed 160,000 bags of rice in Sao Paulo at prices ranging from...
...well aware of the project's weaknesses. He wants to use some of the threefold increase Rio granted for his next year's budget to build more schools. The hospital, too, needs funds. So far, the colony has concentrated on rice as a cash crop; Sayão is not sure but that cotton or coffee might be better. Also, the road that was the colony's lifeline leads only to Anapolis' one-horse railway. Now Sayão is driving the highway some 130 miles beyond his colony's limits, to the banks...
Unlike the average Victorian hero, Author Collins did not let an angry flush mantle his high brow, and rush off to thrash the cad with a riding crop. Like a sensible novelist, he gently escorted the lady to his house in Harley Street (where she was to live as his mistress for many years) and made haste to turn their fortunate meeting into Chapter I of his next novel, The Woman in White. This novel, and its thrilling successor, The Moonstone, made Wilkie Collins one of Victorian England's richest and most popular writers...