Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian zone, political reorganization was speeded up. To German provincial administrations chosen a fortnight ago (TIME, July 16), Marshal Georgi Zhukov last week added carefully picked county administrations (Landratsdmter). The reason given for the Russian haste was the harvest. A winter of famine faced the Germans. Crop forecasts were 45% below normal, and even that figure might be cut by a shortage of harvest hands, sickles, binding wire. All political organizations, said the Berlin press, were helping to draft thousands of Berliners for the farms of Brandenburg...
...briefly climbed the barricades to pat Communist candidate R. Palme Dutt on the back, declare that "practical British Communism saved us in the war in the west." Sighed Labor leader Herbert Morrison: "The election is in danger of degenerating into a comic opera." Agricultural Note. There was the traditional crop of crank candidates. Wackiest of all seemed to be Churchill's eleventh-hour opponent in Woodford, Essex, doughty Alexander Hancock, 47, a farmer...
...June forecast was very good, if not quite so good as it looked: a wheat crop of 1,084,652,000 bu. (the largest ever); crops of oats, hay, some, fruits, and potatoes all promise to be well above average. The joker in all this is freakish weather. Part of Texas has had a record drought, part of Oklahoma has had too much rain and part too little. And many states have good prospects provided the freakish weather does not continue much longer, something that is highly problematical this year, as always...
Corn Means Hogs. Potentially the most dangerous situation is in the corn crop, which in June cannot yet be estimated. But cold, drizzly weather has delayed planting and retarded growth. In many areas where corn usually would be knee high it was barely ankle high or not yet planted. It could still develop a fine crop or be ruined. Said Anderson, looking at the spindly young corn: "A short corn crop could be a calamity." On the corn crop will depend the prospect of meat next year, for every five pounds of corn makes a difference of about a pound...
...best calculated measures of the new Secretary of Agriculture can still be badly upset by acts of God. If the corn crop is very short, it will be impossible to fatten enough cattle and hogs, even if prices make fattening profitable-light beef of inferior quality may be forced on the market when ranges dry up. Conversely, if the weather continues wet and the corn fails to harden before frost, there may be so much soft corn, unfit for storage, that too many cattle will be kept on that cheap feed instead of going to market...