Word: bu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past few weeks. If the Crimson wins tonight it will be the first series which Harvard has ever taken in two straight, and, what is more, it will clinch for the Moseleymen the championship of the Quadrangular League, and a reputation as the best Harvard team in years. Bu it will be no giveaway, as those who follow Harvard-Yale hockey fortunes well know, and fans who go to the Arena in New Haven tonight at 8 o'clock expect to see a fight to the finish...
...price of wheat was about $1 per bu., virtually the same as at the end of 1934. Cotton at 11½? per lb. was nearly 1? cheaper. Copper cost 8¼? per lb., up nearly 2?. Coffee at 8? per 1b. was down 2½?. Hogs at $9.20 per cwt. were...
...Farmers are guaranteed for 1936 not less than 5? a Ib. for cotton they do not raise. 35? a bu. for corn they do not raise, $1.25 for each hog they do raise. Every hog over their quota will cost them...
...days after Mrs. Newkirk's letter went out, John B. Hutson, AAA's potato director, announced that the automatic tax-free potato quota would not be 5 bu. (as fixed by law) but 50 bu. (as fixed by executive discretion). Republican ladies could still infringe the law by selling a few bushels of potatoes without applying for a quota but to do a good job of law defiance they would have to tear up considerable shrubbery around their homes and do some sizeable potato landscaping...
...shouted: ''How are the cripples this morning?" and drove on roaring at his own joke. Also he took the first good afternoon to drive out to his 2,500-acre farm where he learned from Manager Otis Moore that the corn crop had been 1,300 bu., the best ever, inspected a number of new sheds built of lumber grown on the place and sawed at his own mill...