Word: barley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...promptly tagged for sale or slaughter. To the rest, sharp-eyed experts award ratings which, in addition to B.P., include B.T. (Bravo Tarde), B. (for Bravo) and S. (Superior). By association with tamer bulls, the grass-raised fighters are gradually taught to eat muscle-building portions of corn, barley mash, chickpeas and beans. Vaqueros on quick-footed ponies place the food on one hill, water on another several miles away. Shuttling between the two, La Punta bulls develop the sure-footed power that has enabled them at times to throw a picador and his horse five feet up and over...
King George VI officially turned 53 last week (his real birthday is Dec. 14). Some 1,500 soldiers of His Majesty's Guards were given a special ration of barley sugar, designed to carry the Guardsmen through the rigorous birthday ceremony (see cut), the first full-dress "Trooping the Color" to be held since 1939. Footguardsmen of the Welsh Guards donned scarlet tunics and towering bearskins, to stand at rigid attention. They were joined by plumed horsemen of the Household Cavalry. To take the salute, the King himself, not yet sufficiently recovered from his leg ailment to ride horseback...
...seventh floor of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange began turning visitors away. Inside, jampacked spectators looked down to the trading floor where traders were clustering, half an hour early, around the octagonal steps of the coarse-grains pit. Since September 1943 there had been ceilings on oats and barley and trading had all but died. Now a free market had returned...
...rest with his stentorian "Ninety-five for May oats." (The ceiling had been 65? a bushel.) Across the pit a hopped-up trader with right fist up, knuckles outward, all fingers clenched (indicating no fractions) shrieked: "Sold!" A boy chalked the quotation on the board. In a few moments, barley opened at $1.25 (May delivery), up 32? from a 93? ceiling...
...first half-hour all futures were high because of buying by feed companies, barley maltsters and porridge makers. Then the market softened and closed at the day's lows, with almost 20,000,000 bushels sold. Next day, most futures were lower again, though .they stayed far above former ceilings...