Word: farmland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...typical mung grower is Victor Virgil Beard, 31, of Waukomis, who came home after 16 months in the Army. He had been discharged as an essential farmer. Early this summer Beard cut 2,500 bu. of wheat off 100 of his 600 acres of rich flat farmland. As soon as the wheat was in, Beard planted the 100 acres of wheatland to mungs, this fall harvested 17,400 Ibs. of beans. The wheat grossed Beard $3,575, the mungs $3,132-and Beard still has 1,250 Ibs. of beans for seeds...
...were reported "the worst in a hundred years." The Cottonwood, the Neosho, the Little Arkansas, the Chickaskia and the Osage Rivers were at alltime highs. The Mississippi burst through levees from St. Louis to Cape Girardeau, flooded a million acres. A 20-ft. wall of water cascaded over Illinois farmland when a levee crumpled. The placid Schuylkill spilled over its banks near Philadelphia. Twelve were dead, thousands homeless. Tornadoes, ripping through 14 states from South Carolina to Texas, killed 80, injured...
...station KWKH. In the late '30s Decca made a record of his It Makes No Difference Now, made another with Bing Crosby doing the singing, and Davis was in demand. Since then his records have sold more than a million copies, and Davis has acquired 450 acres of farmland. He calls the farming his insurance. "When a man's in the business I'm in," he says, "things may blow up overnight...
...spring of 1942, the War Department hurriedly bought 21,000 acres of rich farmland at Rosemount, Minn. Farmers were hustled off ("Don't you know there's a war on?") before they could harvest crops already planted. In came the Du Pont Co. with a big job: to build and operate the DPC's $69,000,000 Gopher Ordnance Works...
Farm equipment and manpower shortages, gas rationing and a host of other wartime worries have put some brakes on the farmland boom market up to now. The real danger in the 1943 boomlet is that too many farmers might decide to take a flyer in land for speculation's sake and not for the land's produce. Against that psychology, if & when it arrives, the U.S. farmer's best weapon will be a long memory...