Word: grains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...billion bushels, more than double any average prewar year. But the chances of starting the wheat on its way promptly are worse than ever. Fewer boxcars are available than in the worst war years. In the Texas Panhandle, farmers are already scouting around for circus tents to cover the grain on the ground until the railroads can move it. As the harvesters move north in the next month, the car shortage will become worse...
...World grain stocks are going down...
...Shipments from the U.S., Canada, Argentina, Australia and other grain-exporting countries will have to be much greater than the past year's high level...
...which in the immediate prewar years shipped only a negligible portion of the world's exported grain, now supplies 50.5% of all the world's grain exports...
...This will require diversion of grain shipments from the West, which will more than offset the rise in grain production...