Word: harvestable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russian experiment has been undertaken by average men, but it has brought out some particular values which loom of surpassing importance. ... To them the harvest, the factory, their measures of protection and defense are most important; and sabotage, neglect, indifference and disloyalty, or the suspicion of them, in these matters are treason, heresy and blasphemy, to be dealt with as such...
...Union Hotel, only inn in town, was restricting its hospitality to the jurors and others officially connected with the case. Newshawks were advised to rent rooms elsewhere, and the town's housewives were preparing to reap a rich harvest from the influx of at least 1,000 guests. Already hearing the distant clink of coins, Flemington's town council deadlocked over the proposal to permit erection of street-side hot dog stands, a measure hotly challenged by the town's two restaurateurs...
...Libby of the National Council for Prevention of War broadcast this dire prediction: "We shall build naval vessels and airplanes madly on a fictitious war scare which the munitions makers are trumping up. . . . Our shipbuilders, airplane manufacturers and munitions makers are already launching their publicity to reap a rich harvest from the breakdown of the London Naval conversations...
...farms the last bushel of wheat had been threshed, the last shock of corn stacked, the last apple picked, the last potato dug last week when the Department of Agriculture issued its final estimates of the 1934 harvest. Production of field crops was 32% below the average for the past ten years but prices were up 42% from last year, 140% from 1932. Farm value of field crops was $4,800,000,000 as against $4,100,000,000 last year...
Hardest hit by Drought were corn and oats-both the shortest crops since 1881. Two years ago the corn crop was 2,900,000,000 bu., worth $560,000,000 at a farm price of less than 20? per bu. This year the harvest was only 1,380,000,000 bu. At an average price of 78? per bu. it was valued at more than $1,000,000,000. The oat crop was less than one-half that of 1932 but the farm price had jumped from 13? to 52? per bu. and total value increased in two years from...