Word: harvestable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...potato traders had actually tried to manipulate prices, the city slickers on the exchange had simply been out-slicked by what had happened down on the farm. In theory, the purpose of futures trading is to enable farmers to raise cash on their crops in advance of the harvest. However, Maine's conservative potato farmers are generally leary of the way traders operate, feel that speculation on the exchange often tends to upset the normal laws of supply and demand, frequently depresses potato prices below fair value...
...reap a fine harvest of praise for the informative and appreciative article, and may Claire McCardell's enthusiastic customers be multiplied to their own certain delight. You say anyone can wear McCardell's clothes, but "they look best on what countless ads have presented as the ideal American beauty-tall, slim, long-legged." As one of the most un-American types imaginable (short, curvy, unathletic), I would like to testify that McCardell's clothes have been as if made-to-order for me from the early dirndl and Monastics through to the recent classic shirtwaist...
Help from the South. The Milan fair was an accurate reflection of Italy's growing boom. Gross national product jumped by 5% last, year, even though drought lopped 2 billion tons from the normal 9 billion ton wheat harvest; industrial production was up nearly 10%. Crude-steel production topped 4,000,000 tons and auto production increased to 215,000 cars and trucks, both alltime records. An important new oilfield has been tapped on the Adriatic coast, while Sicily's Ragusa field (TIME, Jan. 25, 1954) has four producing wells, with a fifth...
...from the signs of the solar zodiac that he got it; it was from the 28 signs of the Luna (i.e., moon) zodiac, which were invented long before "to fix the calendar and to determine the times of planting and seasons of harvest and the religious ceremonies which accompanied them." From these primitive astrological signs, the Chinese built up many of their own characters. Other civilizations apparently evolved a sort of shorthand which grew, in spite of cuneiform and hieroglyphics, into an alphabet. The very meanings of the symbols seem to bear this out. In Hebrew, for instance, the second...
...Harvest Books (Harcourt, Brace), to get under way in August with such chewy fare as Karl Mannheim's Ideology and Utopia and C. G. Jung's Modern Man in Search of a Soul...