Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind the Statement. While Henry Kaiser got his usual bumper crop of headlines, Big Steel-which always moves slowly-remained mum. But there were other reasons to consider, beyond Ben Fairless' statement that "there is a limit," for Big Steel's stand...
...soldier of World War II? "I am not attacking the character of these gentlemen," he explained. "[But] we assume our representatives are being sent [to London] with a purpose-not to be good fellows, not to discuss Montana or whatever Mr. Walker is familiar with . . . or the strawberry crop in Delaware...
Beaver School for girls started in a stable on Boston's proud Beacon Hill, now inhabits a million-dollar home in suburban Brookline. Not quite so "progressive" as it once was, Beaver draws a set of well-heeled bobby-soxers (42 of Boston's current crop of 130 debs are Beaver girls) and succeeds pretty well in making scholars of them. But Beaver only paid off $10,000 of its $262,000 original mortgage. Last month a Boston bank, tired of the green mold forming around Beaver's I.O.U.s, threatened to foreclose. One alumna dumped her four...
After a quick look at the citrus fruit market, OPA decided that this year's bumper crop was more than enough to meet demand. So last week it removed citrus ceilings until Jan. 13. The effect was like jabbing a grapefruit: instantly citrus prices squirted skyhigh all over the U.S. Example: in Seattle, lemons went up within two hours from the ceiling of $5.76 a crate to $9.50. Grapefruit went up $1.25 a crate. Oranges jumped from $4.63 to $7.50 a crate...
...week's end, chiefly because of public resentment, citrus prices were already dropping. OPA ruefully admitted that maybe ceilings had been lifted too soon. But it was confident that the new crop in December would bring prices down to normal...