Word: harvesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Traders in corn, the prime feed for U.S. livestock, had expected a good crop-but nothing like the bumper yield forecast in the Department of Agriculture's first official estimate. Conditions as of July 1 indicated a 1948 corn harvest of 3,328,862,000 bushels, 39% over last year's dried-out crop and 2% more than 1946's record...
...fringes of Markos' domain were so friendly. Some were Communist supporters. Others just could not believe that the Greek army was there to stay. A peasant woman remarked that the wheatfields had been planted by Markos' men. "They said they'd be back to harvest it." But this time the Greek army was confident...
Across the rolling lands of Texas and Oklahoma, sweating harvesters drove their clanking combines in echelon, cutting wide swaths through the endless fields of golden wheat. As the winter wheat harvest hit its full stride last week, farmers were hard put to find a place for their bumper crop. In such railroad centers as Burkburnett, Tex., every available elevator was full to overflowing; shippers, caught by the shortage of railroad cars, were forced to dump the harvested grain in piles along the streets...
Agriculture had predicted a good but unexciting harvest. Last week, totting up farmers' estimates after a month of moderate sun and providential rains, a whopping 75,000,000 bushels was added to the total. Barring bad weather, the Government said, farmers could expect a crop of 1,192,425,000 bushels, second only to last year's record 1,364,919,000 bushels...
...live in, another for his study. The steeple was twisted by a high wind and must be somewhat altered in design.There is a cabbage crop planted on the plot of land (donated by the U.S. Army) where the factory will be, and the foundation-laying must await the harvest...