Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Japan would not soon be likely to get the 25% of her rice supply which normally came from abroad, and the domestic crop was 8% below normal. Steel production was 20% of normal, machine tools 70%, chemicals 20%, textiles 15%, electricity 30%. There was little salt, and the general public could expect no leather shoes before 1946. Meanwhile they would wear wooden get a (clogs). The country had lost 11 million of its 14 million prewar cotton spindles but could still supply domestic textile needs if it had 5 million piculs (1,300,000 U.S. bales) of cotton. The total...
General George S. Patton Jr. had kept mum for quite a while. It was unlike him. Last week, in Bavaria, where he is U.S. military governor, he broke the irksome silence, brandished his riding crop and informed the press: "Well, I'll tell you. This Nazi thing. It's just like a Democratic-Republican election fight...
...face of a mouth-watering fact: because of world shortages Canada could probably get any price she wanted, within reason, for her wheat. Canada could at least get the going U.S. price of $1.70 a bushel ($1.90 in Canadian money), which would delight wheatgrowers in a bad crop year...
...showed that it could plant at least twice as much as the old back-breaking hand method. But his big selling point was profits. Hudson told the farmers that they could make from two to four times more per acre from truck farming than they had from their conventional crop. They thought it over, then lent him 103 acres to try to prove it-a few acres from each farm...
...hitting a fancy .356. Charlie ("King Kong") Keller had come back, too, but too late to save the staggering Yankees. Cleveland's warpath Indians, who had just reclaimed (from a Texas shipyard) a potent hitter in Les Fleming, this week were due to get the cream of the crop- Fireball Bob Feller...