Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia, said Minister of Agriculture I. A. Benediktov, is on the way to a bumper wheat crop...
Congratulations on your excellent article concerning the crop situation in the U.S. (TIME, Aug. 19). Evidently the picture entitled Dinner for Threshers goes with the article. I don't mean to question the work of Mr. Grant Wood, but just where is the thresher who is washing his face going to sit? The table seems to be fully occupied from where...
...flag, while thousands of ragged Burmans shouted: "Down with the Government!" Few Burmans really wanted violence, but a British officer estimated that there were enough weapons hidden in the country for a "long and bloody struggle." The crucial factor would be the size of next November's rice crop. Now Burmans chanted an old verse with new, ominous meaning...
...encouragement worked well. Potato production in 1943 reached an all-time high of 464,999,000 bushels, there was plenty for all. But last week the Government was reaping a bumper crop of wastage from the seed it had so generously sown. Perfect weather and DDT combined with the Government incentive to boost this year's crop to a near-record...
...luncheon" for foreign relief in Washington last week he lamented: "There are mountains of [potatoes]. The Department has one man in a top executive job who can do nothing but buy them. We set a goal for 1946 of 378,000,000 bushels. It looks now as though the crop will be 445,000,000 bushels. How's that for a test of the ability of the Department to control production...