Word: bu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proposed the following: Premier, Molotov; First Vice Premier, Beria; Foreign Minister, Mikoyan; First Secretary of the Party [Stalin's own original post of power], Zhdanov; Second Secretary, Malenkov; Minister of Defense, Voroshilov; First Vice Minister of Defense, Bu-denny; President of the Council of the Union, Andreyev; President of the Council of Nationalities, Bulganin; President of the Supreme U.S.S.R. Council, Shver...
...Hungry Britain, waiting for the 160,000,000 bushels of wheat Canada had promised her this crop year, got some grim statistics. By last week, the official end of the Great Lakes navigation season, Canada had exported only 75,000,000 bu. -its poorest showing since 1942. Britain had got only about 52,000.000 bu. of that; the rest went to markets like the West Indies, Africa, India. Reasons for late and small delivery: i) Canada's small wheat carryover; 2) a shortage of railway cars, use of wheat ships for coal after last spring's U.S. coal...
...vast piles which tower through the length of the store, are absolutely certain to make the acquaintance of Abraham Isenstadt, the proprietor of the establishment. Mr. Isenstadt, no shrinking violet in any of his thirty-nine years, first dabbled seriously at bookselling while attending Boston University and the BU Law School. After graduating from the latter and being admitted to the Massachusetts bar, he elected not to practice law but instead went into the book business. Since then, Mr. I. has acquired a huge stock of assorted writings that fills the basement of his Boylston Street store and that...
...April 29, 1944, the corner seemed vise tight. General Foods, Rice and their cohorts had May futures contracts calling for delivery of 5.7 million bu. of rye. But there were only 4.2 million bu. of rye available in Chicago. Speculators who had sold rye short, gambling that the price would drop before they had to deliver, scurried for cover. They had to find rye or pay through the nose...
...tried to bottle up the Winnipeg rye market. But one of the shorts was wily Cargill Grain Co., an old hand at corners. Cargill hustled enough Winnipeg rye to Chicago to break the corner, and drive down the price of rye futures, which had risen from 64¼? a bu. to $1.32 5/8. Two years later, it rose to $2.86 but General Foods had sold out. Final loss to General Foods...