Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brunt of the battle fell, of course, upon A. F. of L.'s President William Green, who had failed to act when the bill was before Congress. He now called a meeting in Washington of all his union presidents to put on belated heat. Cried he: "A vital principle is at stake. The wage standards of organized labor, built up through years of sacrifice, suffering and collective bargaining, are threatened . . . strikes and strikes...
Against blue Sierra Blanca Peak, the guests pitched their tents, then set about the business of the party: baseball, rodeo performances, powwowing, eating. When night fell the dancing began to the monotonous beat of tom-toms. All night the Apaches danced. Disdaining sleep, they returned to their baseball, rodeo, powwowing, eating. Night came again; again the Apaches danced it through...
...prices, the U. S. industry might have grown more slowly, but the Cartel's greed was all the "protection" that the infant industry needed. The Syndicate's final stupidity was to maintain its prices during the 1938 depression. As a result its sales to the U. S. fell from 351,445 tons to 193,609 tons (45%), while sales of domestic potash expanded...
...purges and the historic drought of 1934, the pig population of the U. S. took a mighty tumble. In 1933, when little pigs first got the attention of Franklin Roosevelt's planned agricultural economy, the porker crop was a whacking 84,200,000. For 1935 the crop fell to 55,086,000 and pork prices soared (peak: $10.95 per cwt. in September). Since then the crop has increased every year...
Last week the Department of Agriculture, having canvassed hog-farmers in its semiannual survey, announced its best guess for 1939: a six-year record of about 83,000,000. Three days after the estimate was announced, July lard futures fell to 5.7? per pound, a five-year low. Average hog prices in Chicago, which last month hit a five-year low ($6.02½ per cwt.) will not feel the 1939 crop until this fall when pigs farrowed this spring begin to go to slaughter. Chief beneficiaries of the booming pig population: the corn farmers, 40% of whose product will...