Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canadian Pacific and the Hud son's Bay Co., both holders of vast mineral rights in Saskatchewan, the mineral-tax law was virtually "confiscatory." The Dominion Loan & Mortgage challenge was almost surely a direct result of the fact that this year Saskatchewan's crop is poor...
...bumper rice crop is coming up - the only bright spot I see in the coming winter of privation. The dipsy-doodle price of rice shows how values have changed. It shot to 280 yen per bushel in the Japs' latter days. At the end, hoarded stocks were dumped. The price fell to 28 yen (briefly) and by now is back to 100 to 120 yen on the black market. The Army has set a military exchange rate of 15 yen to the dollar. But 25 or 30 would be more realistic...
...Farm Security Act, prohibiting mortgage foreclosures in bad crop years...
...statistics behind the production of "The True Glory" are overwhelmingly impressive: its carefully edited 82 minutes represent the pick of a huge crop of pictures. Yet the shots are often ones that everyone has seen before in news-reels and newspapers and picture magazines...
Each year has its crop of big babies. Doctors, who believe what they see, list a 25-lb. stillborn girl in 1916 as the largest on U.S. record. Last week medium-sized Mrs. Francis Strohl, 38, wife of a Lawton, Pa. lumberman, gave birth to a baby girl who would be hefty in any year: 18 Ibs. The child, her mother's 15th, was reported in fine condition...