Word: yieldings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...harvesting the biggest crop in history. The wheat harvest would yield more than 1.2 billion bushels. Dusty trucks were rolling along the roads with corn which is expected to total a record-breaking 3.5 billion bushels (previous record: 3.2 billion in 1946). Man and nature had collaborated in a great triumph...
Humble's big problem now is shipping the oil to the mainland. At present, the oil is going in barges, but the company will probably build a 7½-mile platform-to-maimand pipeline for it. Oilmen think the Gulf pool should ultimately yield at least 4 billion barrels...
...records. Most other crops were far above average. The corn crop was phenomenal. From Illinois to Arkansas, the cornfields nodded in silky tassel. The expected crop of 3.5 million bushels was the biggest in U.S. history, and almost half again as large as last year's disappointing yield. It could bring cheaper pork by next spring, cheaper beef by fall, 1949. It should bring down the prices of butter, eggs, milk and poultry...
Meanwhile the Federal Housing Administration would be meandering toward inflation with the new housing law which Congress passed last week. Its main provision is something called "yield insurance," by which the Government will back private investment in emergency housing up to 90% of capital outlay, and insure a 2¾% profit. With houses now going up about as fast as the supply of materials will allow, the likely result would be an imperceptible rise in new housing, and an appreciable rise in already inflated building costs...
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...