Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was still a fair amount of wheat on U.S. farms, but the railroads were bringing comparatively little of it to the market. And the Government had been a heavy buyer of what was delivered. Yet the winter wheat promises to be a bumper crop, even bigger than last year's whopper. The U.S. will probably be able to ship as much wheat to Europe as last year and still have a small surplus. Eyeing all this, traders expected wheat to be down to around $2.16 by July and they were buying for future delivery on that basis...
...preliminary at Hanover pits the Crimson Freshmen five against an undefeated crop of Indian yearlings. Like their big brothers, the Dartmouth Freshmen have been invincible at home, and have scored at least 76 points in every game this year...
...Million. "When this moves in over a city you have to evacuate the people right away or they will die from gamma radiation. You couldn't clean the area. The fissionable material would get into the water-into everything. It would get into next year's crop...
...Cordillera Central. The department of Caldas, colonized a few decades ago, produces more coffee than any other department today. The Antioquian peasant transplanted his democratic land system wherever he went: Caldas coffee farms are even smaller than those of southern Antioquia; the owners' families themselves pick the crop. Like the U.S., Colombia thus had a homesteading frontier. Social pressures had an escape; the free peasantry of the Cauca Valley counterbalanced the backward feudal areas around Bogota. To this free frontier is due the sensational increase in coffee production (1913-14, 600,000 sacks exported...
Stop the 'Hail. G.E. does not plan to tinker with the whole U.S. atmosphere, but it has its eye on hailstorms, which do enormous damage to crops in certain parts of the country. Hail is formed when raindrops are sucked into rising currents in a thundercloud. They freeze high in the air, collide with supercooled water droplets, and grow into crop-slashing hailstones. Dr. Irving Langmuir proposes to charge the thunder-threatening air with silver iodide particles. Sucked up into the cloud, they will turn the supercooled droplets into snow before they can build up hailstones...