Word: crops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...December-January crop, the following stood out as best bets...
...crew obtained a pituitary substance which did not noticeably affect the thyroid or the sex glands, but which had a marked effect on the mammary glands. It started milk production not only in normal female guinea pigs but also in spayed females and males. In pigeons it thickened the crop sac, which provides a liquid ("pigeon milk") with which pigeons feed their young. Riddle called this new hormone prolactin...
They have measured the crop-sac response of pigeons so closely that it serves as a quantitative test for prolactin in samples sent there by other laboratories. Dr. Bates, who took part in the original discovery of the hormone, has specialized in this "biological assay." Dr. Schooley has worked out a pituitary removal technique for pigeons, going in through the pharynx at the back of the throat, which leaves the back lobe of the gland intact so that almost all the birds survive the operation...
...efforts to bring farm prices into line, the New Deal has only three alternatives: 1) boost crop prices by controlling farm production, in which AAA I and AAA II have only partly succeeded; 2) lower prices of manufactured goods; 3) devalue the dollar again, giving commodity prices an inflationary shot in the arm. With new devaluation already threatened for the weak currencies of Britain and France, the homecoming of Ambassador Kennedy from England last fortnight hatched a new brood of rumors that the dollar's gold content was about to be cut from 59? to 50?. Asked about these...
From $6,554,600,000 appropriated for agriculture since 1933, Congress has got precious little pork. This year, however, Secretary Henry Agard Wallace has had some pork to cut-$4,000,000 for four laboratories to study new outlets for U. S. crops. Last week, after weeding through more than 200 applications and bruising susceptible Congressional feelings, Secretary Wallace located the laboratories, one in each major U. S. crop region: Northern (corn, wheat, agricultural wastes) at Peoria, Ill.; Southern (cotton, sweet potatoes, peanuts) at New Orleans; Eastern (tobacco, milk products, apples, potatoes, vegetables) near Philadelphia; Western (wheat, potatoes, alfalfa, vegetables...