Word: crops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...figure (at Chicago) set last month by Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace. Corn futures also hit the skids, dropping below 50? a bu. for the first time in four years. However, the Department of Agriculture's official estimate of a 2,566,221,000 bu. 1938 corn crop meant that the harvest (plus the carryover) will be 27,000,000 bu. short of an "excessive supply"; hence there will be no referendum to give farmers an opportunity to get marketing quotas imposed. Third item last week on the Department of Agriculture's busy calendar was its estimate...
...investigate the activities of the Canning Industry Board of California, an association of about two-thirds of all canneries in the State, which has blocked the issuance of the marketing order proposed by the State Department of Agriculture. . . . The result has been that, notwithstanding this year's crop is the smallest in three years, the price offered growers is the lowest in 20 years. The price paid last year by canners was $44 per ton. Price offered this year so far is $5 a ton. . . . Cost of production is $23 a ton. The result will ruin the majority...
...Japanese cannot starve us out of this area. We have eradicated 70% of the cotton crop and substituted wheat, and this has resulted in the biggest wheat crop that the province ever...
...championship of the National Football League this fall. Reason: Owner Art Rooney, whose hunches on horse races have brought him a fortune, had at long last succeeded in signing Colorado's Byron ("Whizzer") White, highest scorer (122 points) and most publicized player of last year's crop of college footballers...
...millions. Jewels, silks, perfumes, palaces, race horses and solid gold plate were the order of the day. Oil companies, in step with sugar, leased thousands of acres for exploration. In May 1920, when the dance was maddest, people suddenly began to talk of Europe's next sugar-beet crop. By December the crop was a reality-nearly 50% larger than the year before. Cuba's boom was over; private fortunes went down the spout with the island's banking system; the dream of large-scale oil production faded and concessions remained virtually unexplored...