Word: harvestable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the centralization of the 1920s has been carried far enough. He looks to a time when all the incredible number of light parts that go into a Ford will be made in little towns where the annual shut-down for retooling can be made to coincide with the harvest...
Cotton. Although U. S. cotton growers planted only 28,000,000 acres this year, compared with 34,000,000 in 1937, they are expected to harvest a bumper crop of some 13,000,000 bales and already have a carryover of nearly that much. Last fortnight cotton prices slumped to all-time lows, since then have partially recovered- mainly on rumors of crop-damage from heavy rains in the cotton belt, minor floods in the dust bowl. Last week, spot cotton in New Orleans sold for 8.34? a lb. above the price the week before, but well below...
Corn. After last year's huge corn harvest (2,644,995,000 bu.), mid-western farmers were asked to plant 18% fewer acres. Many ignored the request. It is estimated that by fall, last year's surplus will total 300,000,000 bu., 30% above normal. This fact plus prospects of an average 1938 crop last week dropped futures prices on the Chicago Exchange to 57? a bu., 60? below last year, and prompted Administrator Howard Ross Tolley to predict that a Federal corn loan will be necessary this fall...
...well during Depression as during prosperity-$70,969,589 in nine years between 1920 and 1929, $60,261,527 in eight years since 1929. Chicago did better, with $30,650,030 before 1929, $48,604,771 afterward. Yale, which started an endowment drive in 1926, reaped a bumper harvest in Depression's soil. In the 1920s it raised $64,199,898, in the 1930s...
...classes of the U. S. began to hanker after avocados, and in 1934-35 there was a bumper crop of 20,000,000 pounds which brought in $600,000 to California avocado growers. But last year there was another Big Freeze, which went hard with avocados. Ordinarily, the avocado harvest lasts through the summer, but by last week this season's harvest was over...