Word: frosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meat prices slipped, along with livestock prices. One thing that had finally frightened the speculator into panicky selling was a decision by the Federal Government to cut purchases of grains for November export by some 50 million bu., 42% below the July-October level. And traders who had expected frost to nip the short corn crop, were upset by the Department of Agriculture's announcement that half the corn crop had matured and was safe from the frost...
...Midwest's farmers, whose corn crop is dangerously late because spring floods delayed planting, the Chicago Tribune noted a portent of disaster. Despite the heat, the purple martins had left for the South ahead of schedule-a sure sign of early frost...
...horse flesh, worth $5,000,000 or more, were nervous if not panicky. Some 25 horses which had been vanned in from New England in the past month were checked twice a day. At week's end Saratoga closed without a case of swamp fever; but not until frost, said the vets, can horse owners in the northeastern U.S. breathe easily...
...Pigs. In Vermont's hills, he found friends to back him. Over apple pie & cheese, Hendricks unfolded the scheme to Poet Robert Frost. "I'm going to start a college, Bob," he said. Replied Frost: "I'll be durned. I always wanted to, myself...
...Hendricks left the Frost cottage, with the poet's promise to lecture at the new college, the aurora borealis was flashing across the skies; Hendricks took it as a good omen. At midnight he reached the home of another summertime neighbor and friend, Dorothy Thompson. She liked the idea, too, and agreed to help. So did Author Dorothy Canfleld Fisher, Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Pianist Rudolf Serkin...