Word: ebbs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crops and high pay in the East passed westbound migrants drawn by the same story about the West. Employment service catalogued the labor needs of every farm in every county (spanning a distance as great as that from Detroit to New York), planted supervisors at crossroads to trace the ebb & flow of men, set up 106 control stations, now delivers as many seasonal workers as a farmer needs (and no more) on the day he calls for them...
...made available to the U. S. American buyers promptly bought 4,800,000 lbs. for $2,500,000 at prices about those for equivalent grades in the U. S. market. Purchases would have been larger but for the following factors: the buying season was at year's low ebb; the buying machinery creaked; since the beginning of war U. S. mills had tapped South American and South African markets for about 50,000,000 lbs. Then the purchasers had a fresh worry: transportation. Because of war-interrupted shipping schedules, it may be considerably longer than the usual...