Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prices were right. Nourished by all three, the world's grainfields were blooming. Hunger might come again next year, out crop reports indicated that 1946's worst was over...
...harvesting the biggest crop in its history. The wheat output was expected to reach 1,132,075,000 bushels, 42 million more than the July 1 estimate, some nine million more than last year's all-time high. Granted a good soaking rain in the corn belt within a fortnight, corn production would also break records; the Department of Agriculture's estimate last week was 3,487,976,000 bushels, some 250 million better than the previous high...
...which would reduce her import needs from 70 million bushels in 1946 to a mere 20 million in 1947. Greece, Spain and Portugal hoped to raise grain production to approach their prewar levels. South Africa and Australia were expanding their wheat acreages. Argentina, drought-stricken last year, reported favorable crop conditions...
Cautioning Hand. Encouraged by the prospects at home and abroad, U.S. grain traders promptly began pressing for suspension of all price controls, millers for permission to make flour whiter, distillers to abolish allocations. But the Department of Agriculture raised a cautioning hand. The world crop, although considerably higher than last year's 5.2 billion bushels, would still fall below the prewar average of 5.9 billion. And not all the news was good...
...officer: "Now that we're getting quantity supplies of Coca-Cola, maybe our boys will get back to behaving." But most G.I.s in Austria already had passing marks for behavior; and many were living up to their orientation slogan, "Soldier, you are helping Austria." The first crop of Austrian babies fathered by helpful G.I.s is sizable...