Word: leans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington last week President Roosevelt remarked at a press conference that he hoped for quick action in Congress on Secretary Wallace's cherished "Joseph" plan for insuring farmers against lean years by storing away part of each bumper crop (TIME, March 1). The President spoke day after the Federal Crop Reporting Board, having added up June 1 data from 40,000 farmers and field agents, released its estimates of the principal U. S. crops for 1937.* Most accurate to be had, the figures seemed to suggest that a cycle two years shorter than the Biblical one had entered...
...Norfolk & Washington Steamboat Co., chuffed down the quiet Potomac on its regular overnight run from Washington to Norfolk. About midnight a ''red-faced'' man stepped up to the deserted refreshment counter and ordered a bottle of beer. Just as he was served, a lean, bespectacled, elderly man, whose grey head was topped with a brown beret, sauntered up beside him. Because they seemed to be total strangers, the clerk was surprised when the red-faced man handed his beer over to the man with the beret, still more surprised when the red-faced man then ordered...
...woman, one of 500 sweltering delegates who met one evening last week in San Francisco's musty old Labor Temple. They had met before 8 p. m. They did not adjourn until 5:25 next morning. Their business was indeed important: Harry Bridges, the lean little Australian-born leader of San Francisco's 4,000 International Longshoremen-the John L. Lewis of the West-was trying to snitch the San Francisco Labor Council clean away from the A. F. of L. Under William Green's orders the Central Labor Councils of Seattle and Portland had expelled...
...less publicized than Pitcher Dean, long, lean, left-handed Carl Hubbell of the New York Giants has a far higher rating for efficiency. Most startling of the many pitching statistics that prove Hubbell the ablest member of his profession currently performing was his record, started last July, of winning 24 league games in a row. Closest approach to this record was made in 1911-12 by Rube Marquard who won 20 straight games...
...crafty manipulative scheme to pinch the bears for profit. It was simply a scarcity of grain, resulting from last year's drought and AAA restrictions. In the previous five years the U. S. corn crop averaged nearly 2,300,000,000 bu. annually, a figure itself on the lean side because of the very short crop in 1934. Yet last year all the corn land in the country produced only 1,500,000,000 bu. The carryover from the previous crop was a piddling...