Word: harvester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Hoover, so often unlucky, picked a bad day in which to flay short wheat speculators as the cause of depressed prices. Almost at the same hour the Department of Agriculture was distributing its July 1 wheat crop estimate. This year's anticipated harvest was set at 869,013,000 bu., an increase of 5.583,000 bu. over last year's bumper crop. Such harvests stack one surplus on top of another, send prices down correspondingly. Acreage which the Farm Board has been pleading with growers to reduce 20% was cut less than 5%. While flaying short- sellers...
...Bayes, Sam Bernard, Hazel Dawn, Al Jolson and some others are sitting with Diamond Jim and Lillian, a quiet, friendly supper party with wit and wine. Miss Russell asks Miss Bayes to sing. Miss Bayes, reincarnated in electric yet mellow Ruth Etting, arises simply and simply sings "Shine on Harvest Moon." Hardened revue-goers call it the smash song of this summer on Broadway, all Little Shows and Band Wagons notwithstanding...
...free port in the harbor, conveyor belts are sending thousands of sacks of wheat, grain from last year's bumper harvest, into the holds of British, Japanese, French, and Italian ships, from the huge elevators of the Soviet grain trust. Half a mile away men are falling unconscious on the streets from lack of nourishment...
...Pinkerton detective. He says: "I was a pretty good sleuth, but possibly a bit over-rated because of the plausibility with which I could explain away my failures." During the War, Hammett acquired a sergeantcy and tuberculosis, has lost them both. Other books: The Dain Curse, Red Harvest, The Maltese Falcon...
Discouraging reports reached the Board on the amount of crop acreage reduction. Southwestern planting foreshadowed a harvest of 45,000,000 bu. over last year...