Word: crops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Nov. 1, I read of the corn crop, "Last year's abnormally short crop of 1,500,000,000 bu. was nearly a billion bushels below average," from which statement I judge that the average yield is approximately 2,500,000,000 bushels. Right? I read on, "This year the estimated crop is a bumper 2,500,000,000 bu. . . ." and I am perplexed. Is this year's crop an average crop or a bumper crop? It can't be both at the same time...
Although he did not wish to name any particular favorite of his among present day authors in this country, Mr. Wells did consider that America had a good crop of writers. Parenthetically he cited with praise Ernest Hemingway's latest book and wished that it had received better treatment at the hands of reviewers...
...corn the market price has plummeted from last spring's high of about $1.35 per bu. to 62?. Prices on the farm, always lower,are around 45?. Last year's abnormally short crop of 1,500,000,000 bu. was nearly a billion bushels below average. This year the estimated crop is a bumper 2,500,000,000 bu.-and there are fewer hogs, chickens and steers...
...Deal would ask Congress for the return of the substance of AAA, modified to include 1) Mr. Wallace's "ever normal granary" scheme of storing surpluses for lean years, 2) the better features of the soil conservation program, 3) some form of AAA's prime prop-crop control. However, supporting processing taxes would be enacted as a general tax measure, not incorporated in the program as before. With that legal weakness removed, the New Deal might risk sailing its rebuilt ship before the Supreme Court once again...
...youthful, steady-going Ote Mortimer, glad to get back South after a Depression which landed him in a Detroit automobile factory, proves that a sharecropper can still raise a paying crop, can keep from degenerating, enjoy pleasant relations with his landlord and his girl-Depression, drought and Erskine Caldwell notwithstanding. It is only when his desperately squeezed landlord cannot pay him enough to settle down to a normal married life that his girl runs off with a bootlegger and he smashes in Landlord Allard's head with a singletree...