Word: crops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese explained that the price rise could not be avoided. Fearing a domestic inflation, Japanese people were hoarding silk. Furthermore the 1938 cocoon crop was very small. Trans-Pacific shipping costs had risen since the War started. Total stocks of silk on hand in Japan were estimated to be very low. Besides which the Japanese, to conserve foreign exchange, were buying garments of native silk, instead of imported cotton or rayon made from imported wood pulp...
...second production of the season, Alan Gray Holmes' stock company of Boston is hitting the pace. With Erford Gage as its guiding genius, the company has put on a rousing production of Kaufman-Ferber's play, "The Royal Family." By taking the cream of the dramatic crop in the past decade, Mr. Holmes has made a wise move, for the pep of the script carries the play along when the cast has an occasional low moment...
...football, linemen do the dirty work but the backs get the bouquets. This year, as usual, pre-season football prognosticators focused their attention on the outstanding college backs of the year. Most experts agreed that this year's crop was the most brilliant collection of all time: Michigan's Harmon and Kromer, Purdue's Brock and Brown, Notre Dame's Saggau and Zontini, Tennessee's Cafego, Pitt's Cassiano, Fordham's Eshmont, Duke's McAfee, many & many another...
After examining this year's crop of tutoring notes, the staff of History I has made its second move against the tutoring school notes in issuing yesterday a statement condemning notes on specific grounds...
...Most of its potato crop of 364,208,000 bushels was in, and rows of dusty vines, weeds, crabgrass covered the stripped fields of Idaho; the half-buried potato houses were filled. Rice production was set at 50,000,000 bushels; sugar beets at 10,677,500 tons...