Word: yieldings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russia kept her production figures secret. Outside estimates forecast a better yield than last year, but not exceeding the low wartime average. If Paris reports were true, the Soviet Government was seeking to sell some 50 million bushels of grain abroad; it was probably not because of surplus stocks, but to win friends and influence people. Crop estimates from Germany, Austria, Hungary, Poland were discouraging. In India and China, famine threatens to linger on at least until November, when the new rice crop will be gathered...
...BANK OF ENGLAND. Former shareholders receive Government stock at same yield. industry. Governor reappointed, plus 16 directors from finance and industry...
...Connolly is the latest fashion in bitter elegance in English letters, as his friend George Orwell is the latest fashion in common sense. Connolly's touch of Irish divination and curiosity has given him a greater range than other amateurs of the 18th Century manner. His published pieces yield the vivid image of an Old Etonian still alive and kicking amid the European rubble, somberly turning the pages of psychiatric journals, reaching for the odes of Horace, and composing, with a groan, clever paragraphs to keep his modern anguish under classic control...
After supper Frank Anderson let himself down in his easy chair. No, he couldn't kick. This was fine, hard wheat-Class One, every bit of it. His 600 acres would yield about 8,000 bushels. At last week's elevator price of $1.70 a bushel, that would mean about...
...started by crossbreeding corn (using methods developed by earlier U.S. botanists) and launched a hybrid corn boom which has added an estimated 30% to the U.S. maize yield. By suppressing undesirable recessive characteristics in the crossed plants, hybridization produces hardier, more vigorous offspring. Crossbreeding has been extended to other plants, poultry, hogs, steers. Last week spectacular results were reported from another Wallace-sponsored experiment. Subject: cows. Object: more milk...