Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comparison is less than fair considering the losses suffered by Luzon industry during the occupation and the unrest that has paralyzed attempts at large-scale industrial recovery. President Roxas will have all he can do to salvage and rebuild the old plants and mills. Conversion from a one-crop economy must be relegated to days when actual survival is not a day-to-day headache...
Last week, on a trim, whitewashed farm some 15 miles from Belfast on the shores of County Down, the 49 were laughing and shouting again, playing ping-pong and tennis, swimming, milking cows and feeding chickens. Some tended vegetable gardens, taking particular care of the garlic crop. Others, exhausted from play, lay red-cheeked and panting in the shade of verónica shrubs...
...Canada's-wheat farmers, rust is as fearsome a word as death or taxes-and once it was just as inevitable. When the fungus attacks wheat, the crop is destroyed. But after the black year 1935, when 85,000,000 bushels were lost to rust, Canada's Dominion Experimental Farms Service developed two "rustproof" wheat strains, Renown and Regent. Last week, the Service announced that rust, adapting itself to new conditions as Nature usually does, is now attacking the rustproof strains. But Canada's wheat crop was in little danger. Reason: the Service has developed...
...answer was that Conn might have looked pretty good in a warm-up against the current crop of second-raters, and still flopped as badly when he got the main chance. He seemed to be suffering from an occupational disease that has afflicted many of Joe Louis' opponents-being scared to death...
...Fish and Wildlife Service went on stocking lakes and streams with its usual 7,000,000,000 fish and fish eggs a year. State hatcheries fed them on horse meat and liver (rainbow trout got an extra pinch of paprika for coloring). After four years, a fine fish crop was ready & waiting. Only drawback: a shortage of fishing tackle...