Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brightest spot in the Democratic column was the victory in Rhode Island of promising, 43-year-old J. (for James) Howard McGrath, onetime U.S. Solicitor General and youngest governor in his state's history. A half-dozen others of the new crop of Senators are still in their 40s. Just 50 is New York's dogged, fair-minded Irving Ives, swept in by the Dewey landslide. Oldsters of the Group are 67-year-old Ed Martin and Vermont's bald, bespectacled Ralph Flanders, 65, a liberal-minded Republican Yankee businessman who had the support of the C.I.O...
...Chile. Looking northward, the first of the five Andean republics is Chile, where spring had come hesitantly, like a girl from the sea, wet and cool. It was bad news for vineyardists that the wine crop was badly damaged by late frosts. It was bad news for Chilenos in general. Next year the common grades of wine might have to go above 18? a gallon (the same price as gasoline) and that would go hard with a nation which bows not even to the U.S. in its liking for alcohol...
...Alexander & Baldwin Ltd.; C. Brewer & Co.; Castle & Cooke Ltd.; Theo. H. Davies & Co., Ltd.; American Factors Ltd. They are crop marketers, shippers, agents for the 'planters...
Every Soviet agency from the Red Army to the MGB (secret police) has its own teams everywhere. The MGB usually gets the cream of the crop without resorting to athletic scholarships; it is hard to turn down a bid from old Mu Gamma Beta. Actually, the state itself takes wonderful care of boys & girls who look like champs. Shotputter Tatiana Sevryukovo got $1,600 for a record heave. Last winter every member of the Dynamo jutbol team that toured England got a $4,000 bonus on their triumphal return. The ultimate goal of all: the rank of "Master of Sport...
Even with Jordan out, the market continued to fall, although more slowly. Never under control, cotton prices had zoomed up to a 26-year high of 39.78? a lb., thanks to the war and the fact that 1) this year's U.S. crop is the smallest in 25 years and 2) textile mills, in peak production, have been using up cotton at 150% of the peacetime rate. But it was only a question of time till cotton buyers and speculators who had spread themselves too thin realized that the comparatively small U.S. carryover from this year...