Word: harvestable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corn bins will soon overflow with the biggest corn crop since 1932, corn supplies last week were very low because last year's carryover was the smallest of this century. With deliveries of September corn futures due on Sept. 30, longs had the best opportunity in many a harvest moon to soak shorts...
...children. In Jewish synagogs at sundown, Yom Kippur ended with sermons and prayers by robed rabbis, and the blowing of the shofar by the most pious members of each congregation. Yom Kippur over, Jews looked forward to celebrating this week the Hebrew analog to Thanksgiving-the eight-day harvest festival, Succoth, in which good Jews build booths near their homes, deck them with fruits and produce, in memory of the days when Palestinians lived in open huts during their wanderings in the wilderness of Sinai...
...more than a billion greater than last year. Though bears suggested that most of this fat income had already been spent in anticipatory or installment buying, leaving only a wrung-out remnant for fall business, joy reigned in most rural hearts as the nine billion dollar harvest moon approached its full...
...less than estimated a month ago but a billion more than last year. At present prices of 63? a bushel for December corn in Chicago, the crop is worth about $1,606,000,000. Last week, with this huge harvest due to begin pouring on the market about Oct. 1, by a freak of commerce the corn futures market on the Chicago Board of Trade was threatened by the tightest "natural squeeze" or corn shortage in years. This was due to the fact that last year's short crop left the smallest carryover of this century. As a result...
...hand in the procedure 33 years ago, mushroom growing was a matter of almost pure chance. Last week the industry Edward Henry Jacob built up from, a six-foot plot in his cellar was the largest mushroom business in the U. S., and it was busy reaping the harvest from history's most important single improvement in mushroom growing...