Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planes. It took them four hours (at 9 m.p.h.) to fly over one village in Paranaá state. They blocked roads, stalled trains, invaded houses. They devastated eight towns, ate up an estimated 60,000 tons of wheat -more than half of Brazil's small but vital wheat crop...
Confidently, Mr. Truman saw meat ahead. Grass-fed cattle (chased from high plateaus by cold weather) would soon begin to appear in the markets. Hog feeders, viewing a record corn crop (673,000,000 bushels in Iowa), saw the opportunity to make a profit from feeding to heavier weights, so hogs might be late. But they would be along. "The dire predictions of a meat famine are without basis," said the President: "An increase in prices or the abandonment of price control on meat now would . . . add to rather than solve our difficulties...
...hundred lucky Harvard students will have the opportunity of meeting the cream of Wellesley's freshman crop at a dance Saturday night in Alumnae Hall starting at 8 o'clock...
...representative of the noble, glorious, social, democratic Republic. Replying to your invitation to this administration to pay 21,500 lire for ... ceding 191 hectares to hungry peasants, I have the honor to inform you that the peasants will pay nothing. They will give you one-fifth of the crop and keep the remainder as the just reward of the sweat they pour out to build a new Italy where Justice, not kings, shall reign. I am, sir, your most obedient servant...
Vulnerability of a plant to chemical killing depends on many qualities, and no two species are exactly alike. Agricultural chemists were studying crop plants and their commonest weed enemies from every possible angle. They were looking for the key difference which would make weeds vulnerable to some chemical which did not hurt the crop. Chances looked good...