Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...since last November is in a chronic state of depression , France and Italy as coal customers have disappeared; for reparations coal from Germany and the coal from the now functioning Lens mines in the north of France supply all their needs. Furthermore, the use of oil, lignite and other low-value fuels is beginning seriously to affect coal consumption...
...gesticulating presence. Eleanor and Stephen get away splendidly, but stall in their big love scene, which is therefore obscene. Frantic, Mr. Hackett descends again to the crank, gets them chugging through an idyll in Virginia. Edward barely escapes nervous wreckage at a memorable Democratic convention. Eleanor finds the low road tarred. The nice young couple are reunited on the high road of respectability and drive happily out of a study in U. S. heredity which is too good to overlook and too bad, considering the author's flashes of ability, to be excused
What does this mean? It means the smallest wheat crop in eight years. It means a wheat crop so small that it should just about equal our wheat consumption-perhaps fall slightly below it, leaving no surplus for export. It means that, even if wheat prices are low abroad, they will be high here. It means that farmers will get good prices for their wheat-even if they have not a great deal to sell...
...came about principally because of poor weather conditions. The number of acres planted in wheat is less than half of one per cent below last year's acreage, but the expected crop is more than 24% less. The estimated yield (number of bushels per acre) is very low. For winter wheat, it is only 12.4 bushels-less than it has been in 20 years. A cool, dry May was largely responsible...
...just the opposite tendency has actually been experienced. Instead of corporation taxes being raised, they have been slashed to the low level of the Delaware corporate imposts. The public utilities have been left alone. Instead of harrying the railroads in the state, legislation was actually passed to help them issue preferred stock. The rails are responding by undertaking new branch lines through the state which will have a great bearing on real-estate values in interior localities...