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...Wheat. What brought it down chiefly was the greatest crop in U.S. history. In Oklahoma and Kansas, the farmers marveled at the "miracle" wheat crop. The miracle was repeated almost everywhere. The corn crop, which had been poor in 1947, was the biggest ever. All told, the U.S. harvest was 11% bigger than ever before...
Each year the numerous lost-and-found depots around the University turn their pockets inside-out, and give unclaimed items to charity. The accumulation of uncalled-for articles is considerable--and doubly uncalled-for, since much of the yearly harvest can be ascribed to the over-abundance of collection offices. The student who has lost something hardly knows where to go to find...
...talking peace with men who had no intention of concluding a peace. Talk meant only delay and delay was costly. But in 1948's troubled world, the U.S. had reason to be thankful. In the midst of hunger and want it knew unequaled prosperity. The year's harvest was the biggest in history. With few exceptions, everyone who wanted a job had one. Labor got a third round of wage increases, and strikes were at a postwar low. Prices inched upward and everyone worried, complained, and talked about them. But the U.S. citizen was earning more actual buying...
Foods. Although this year's harvest was the greatest in U.S. history, the Department of Agriculture set even higher production goals for many foods next year. Biggest boosts: milk up about 3%, chickens and turkeys 10%, sheep 7%, sweet potatoes...
...getting so he can't tell a real honest-to-goodness explosion from a fella trying to have a little good clean fun. Why, if all the blasts heard around here were the real McCoy, Cambridge would be as bare today as a Kansas wheatfield after a record harvest...