Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also boasted: 1) a cartridge-type refill; 2) choice of different colored inks; 3) a higher price, $15 plus jewelry tax. Eversharp had spent $2,000,000 for research and for the North and Central American rights to the Biro pen (TIME, Aug. 21, 1944), forerunner of the present crop of pens. But what Eversharp had got for its money was not clear, as new ball pens were turned out by a handful of companies...
...lure their bees to almost any flower. Red clover, for instance, is not particularly attractive. But if a few bees are fed syrup from a small dish resting on a pile of red clover blossoms, their dances and scent incite other bees to pollenate red clover, increasing its crop of seed...
...tons of wheat had to be imported by countries that could not grow all they needed. But the war and natural disasters sent import needs skyrocketing. Europe, which imported less than 4,000,000 tons of wheat a year before the war, needed 15,400,000 tons this crop year from the 1945 harvest to the 1946. Asia and Africa, which normally imported only 2,400,000 tons, have needed almost 11,000,000 tons. All in all, needy countries came begging for 32,000,000 tons of wheat this year instead of the normal 13,000,000 tons...
...Jasper in the Rockies, closed during part of the war, would reopen June 15. They have already been booked solid. A select few tourists would confine themselves to the "million dollar" salmon fishing clubs along New Brunswick's Restigouche and Metapedia Rivers. Vancouver was assured a bumper crop of visitors for its July Diamond Jubilee to be highlighted by an $80,000 historical pageant...
...city, or a town. It is just a place. Greyhound bus drivers in Crossville, 14 miles away, have never heard of it. The 50-odd families in Big Lick carved their little farms out of the rolling, wooded country of the Cumberland Plateau. Timber used to be their cash crop. When the timber market went bad, there was nothing left but hard scrabble farming...