Word: binned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These are wheat dunes, not sand dunes, piled outside the local grain elevator at Hitchland, Tex. All through the Southwest last week a shortage of railroad cars and bin space forced farmers to pile their bumper crop of wheat in wind-drifted heaps. Labor was also short. Hardest hit were the small elevators that lack mechanical unloading devices-few men want the backbreaking job of scooping wheat from the cars. Result: at Kansas City, 4,800 loaded cars were stalled in the yards, while anxious farmers feared that their wheat would spoil if heavy rains came...
...armchair agronomist, Ray Anderson's talents range far afield from reporting. His farm page is a bursting bin of unmetered verse, sound information on crops and controls, self-snapped pictures, Falstaffian musings on the "gorgeous gorging" of apple-mulberry pie at Center Junction. Before gasoline rationing slowed his pace he averaged 38,000 miles a year, perhaps half of them over unpaved pikes and stubbly fields...
...bin aber Amerikaner," I said without looking at him. I turned to the Danish pilot and began talking about bad flying weather...
...formation while a squadron of fire trucks rumbled and clanged around the Yard, stopped in front of Stoughton and shot a ladder up to the vicinity of his billet...the proud look on Mr. Gregory's face a day or so later when he walked smartly into the gun bin to turn in his piece and said, "My name's Gorham."...the sheepish grin on James Gwin Zea's face when a bunch of the boys referred to him as "the flag," and stood up as he sat down to chow at their tuble ONE day...the crackling sound...
...Less grumbling over the home front. Texas' New Dealing Lyndon Johnson asked a country storekeeper if he thought OPA should be abolished. The storekeeper pulled out his sugar bin, replied: "In the last war this sold for 30?. Now it's 7?. OPA is the difference...