Word: bagful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last winter's price boost, according to FTC, was the inaccurate forecast for Brazil's 1954-5 5 crop. A year ago, a biting frost hit Brazil's second biggest producing area in Parana, damaging nearly 250 million trees. With forecasts of a meager 13 million-bag crop, some 4,000,000 bags less than expected, a wild price spiral for coffee futures got under way. Actually, says FTC, the frost damage was relatively minor. Brazil's 1954-55 crop was less than 1,000,000 bags (8%) below the 1953 levels. But instead...
Coke Boxes & Shopping Bags. Wherever he went last week the wrinkled, spry old man added his own unorthodox touches to the most routine ceremonials. After laying the customary wreaths at the tombs of George Washington and the Unknown Soldier, Rhee signaled to a State Department aide who trotted behind him carrying a shopping bag. At each stop the aide solemnly opened the shopping bag and removed a red maple sapling from the old palace garden in Seoul, and Rhee solemnly planted it. At Mount Vernon Syngman Rhee paused to acknowledge the cheers of a crowd of tourists, and a small...
...small group of Brazilian speculators evidently got the word last December that the Brazilian government was about to boost the support prices from 1,200 to 1,500 cruzeiros ($63.76 to $78.17) a bag, They moved into the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange one day before, came close to cornering the futures market, and in little more than a month sent green coffee prices from...
...stretchers, and the prisoners who were well enough tore almost ravenously into a good French meal. When they had finished, some heroes of the great battle came back to the galleys with hands outstretched, pleading for more. One legionnaire carefully stored his bread crumbs in a cellophane bag, and a Frenchman held up a loaf and cried: "Bread! To me, messieurs, this is cake...
...boss of the agrarian-reform program) and Colonel Carlos Enrique Díaz (head of the armed forces). They gave the checks back to Sierra Franco, who cashed them for blue 20-quetzal bills and grey 100-quetzal bills. He took the million, stuffed in a big canvas bag, back to Arbenz' office and turned it over to the President, Mart...