Word: harvestable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will take 6½ tons of Mimeograph paper to publish the reports, speeches and other documents that emanate from Evanston. The first week's harvest of paper produced some exciting debate...
...responsible for coffee's dizzy spin. Brazilian growers argue that all early crop reports are bound to be inaccurate. To judge yesterday's estimate by today's knowledge, say the coffeemen, is both unsound and unfair. Furthermore, when viewed in terms of the expected 1954 harvest v. the actual harvest, the crop loss from frost was an estimated 2,932,700 bags, or 17%; FTC's 8% figure is based on a false comparison with 1953 production...
...nation's prettiest, homiest and most distinguished art colonies. Its steep hillsides, near where Rip Van Winkle boozed with wilderness ghosts, are patched now with fallow fields. Each "farm" has its barn, and almost every barn conceals an artist's studio. Last week a little of the harvest from those barns was on exhibition at the Woodstock Artists Association Gallery. It made a conservative but sunny display. Most Woodstock painters seem to like picturing pleasant things in more or less understandable fashion. (Advance-guardists go elsewhere, chiefly to East Hampton, L.I. and Provincetown, Mass...
...Some ants are harvesters: they husk, store and dry seeds of grain, cutting roads six inches wide through vegetation to reach their crops. Most harvest ants march out together to gather the seeds, then straggle back with their burdens. Some ants which return without grain apparently feel embarrassed, pick up a useless pebble or a fallen petal and carry it along for show until they get home...
...Poor crop reporting in Brazil and other countries caused pessimistic harvest estimates and thereby inflated prices...