Word: fallow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...actively involved, remembering the mints made in the last War, having experienced no real fighting except the Chaco War and revolts in Brazil, saw that their continent would be the world's tuck shop. South America would sell at hot prices all the raw materials which had lain fallow and unproductive in the past decade. War would wipe out with one black stroke all the hobbling economic nostrums of dictators-depreciated currencies, frozen gold stocks, exchange controls, restricted imports, excessive taxation. Effects on various Latin-American countries...
...boys down at the Grange don't bother much with international politics but they tell me Secretary Wallace has dedicated a song to the AAA's fallow acres...
Some Mormon unemployed will be put to work on fertile but fallow acreage to raise beets and truck crops for refineries and canneries, the profits to be distributed to the needy in cash and kind. Other jobless Mormons will be put to work on a church-building program, cost of which will be shared between localities and a national Mormon fund. This fund is to be swelled by contributions from solvent Mormons who will be expected to abstain from at least two meals on one Sunday each month (minimum estimated cost: 5? per meal). Mormons who have been slack about...
...Most fallow field for air transport is territory where surface travel is slow. Nowhere is it slower than in Alaska, where dogsleds and river boats make a journey to the interior a long-drawn-out hardship. Last week Pacific Alaska Airways, progressive subsidiary of far-flung Pan American Airways, opened a new 700-mi. airway between Fairbanks and Juneau, put on 200-m.p.h. Lockheed Electras which span all Alaska, from Juneau to Nome, in seven hours compared with 34 days by surface travel. New time from New York to Nome by air-boat-air: 4½ days...
...current congress was Texas' Wright Patman's perennial measure to pay the soldiers' bonus in cash at once. This form of generosity involved $2,400,000,000, not from cash on hand, but in greenbacks. The Ways & Means Committee allowed the bill to lie fallow because 1) the House, as it did during the last Congress, would pass it if it got a chance; 2) the Administration, busy borrowing billions of dollars, did not want to frighten the country with greenbackery...