Word: harvests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weather was national news again, and this time, good news: the warm June sun had repaired much of the contrary spring's damage. Now that the wheat was at harvest and the corn growing fast, the late freezes and May's disastrous floods were all but forgotten. Barring drought, this would not be a bad year after...
...Total farm production about 10% below last year's record harvest...
...since 1895 has the U.S. had so few acres planted to cotton, the Agriculture Department announced last week. Next day the War Food Administration prepared to relax its hold on cotton sales, left farmers free to sell all they could harvest. No longer must planters pay an 8?-a-lb. penalty for all sales above their AAA marketing quotas...
Food Czar Chester C. Davis hurriedly pointed out that the report did not carry acreage figures, thus gave no true basis for estimating the year's harvest. He prophesied: 1943 food production may yet match 1942's whopping output...
Last week came good news: United Fruit Co. announced that its first harvest of abaca on its Panama plantation showed a 50% greater yield per acre than has been obtained in the Far East. By the end of 1944 United will have 40,000 acres in Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras, from which it hopes to supply half U.S. normal requirements of around 40,000 tons a year. All of it will go to the Navy, which will share with the Merchant Marine...