Word: crops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distinction was nice. Under the policy of subsidizing crop surplus exports, announced by Secretary Wallace in August, private dealers may negotiate sales abroad at the best price they can get, which tends to be considerably below the U. S. domestic price. If the Government approves the transaction, Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. compensates the exporter for the difference between the prevailing domestic figure and his foreign price...
...Frank Theis prepared to sail for Rio, rumor circulated that he was going to trade U. S. wheat for Brazilian coffee. The U. S. has heard a lot lately about European, particularly German, barter with South America and Mexico (machinery for oil and crops); so it seemed reasonable for U. S. traders to defend themselves with similar tactics. But last week the Brazilian Government emphatically denied the rumor. President Getulio Vargas announced that the Government's new coffee policy (like the -U. S., Brazil found crop limitation a failure, now ruthlessly dumps its coffee surplus abroad) had been...
...process that gets food to people at cheaper prices means not that higher-priced independents lose business but that more food is consumed, since the average housewife with a limited food budget will spend just so much regardless of prices. Increased sales volume, say the chains, means that crop surpluses threaten less frequently and can be disposed of when they arise, thus stabilizing farm prices...
Though the U. S. has been his winter home for many years, he has never applied for U. S. citizenship, considers himself a permanent Russian refugee. A mournful-visaged, crop-headed aristocrat, who was dispossessed of his Russian estates by the revolution of 1917, he is even sicker of Russia's present government than of his besetting Prelude. Asked recently what kind of government would attract him back to Russia again, Rachmaninoff replied: "A better...
...enrollment which will smash all existing records is expected when the midyear session begins in February. Besides a 96 per cent return of students entered for the first half-year there will be an especially large new crop. Lombard said that more than 90 per cent of the men enlisted for the first time will return again next year for further graduate study...