Word: bu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson batters opened up in the seventh, when Harper replaced Snow on the mound for BU. After Jack Coppinger singled and Armen Essayan put down a perfect bunt, Phelan walked to load the bases. A double to center by Saul Mariaschin and a single from Don Swegan's bat brought in three runs...
...relieving ripple beyond vision; rolling prairies, like the heaving surface of the ocean congealed to earth; vast uplands lifting slowly with no barrier but a barbed-wire fence to the terminal barrier of the Rocky Mountains. In good years, this vast food factory poured out some 800 million bu. of wheat, some 2,800 million bu. of corn, 1,200 million bu. of oats, 63 million hogs, 33 million beef cattle, 36 million sheep, 82 million lbs. of milk, 3,200 million lbs. of butterfat...
...Port Arthur it was just an ordinary busy morning. The big, bulging grain elevators (capacity: more than 50,000,000 bu.) were hiring anyone who could and would wield a shovel. More grain ships than ever before were being loaded at the great Lake Superior port...
...their brokers, Daniel F. Rice & Co., began buying rye futures, i.e., promises of delivery of rye at a future date. General Foods, which ordinarily uses little rye, had a plan to use it in place of corn syrup. By May 1944 General Foods and Rice controlled 11.8 million bu.-almost 89% of the deliverable rye. Other speculators soon realized that a corner was in the making, and they waded into the market with big chunks of cash. The rye pit seethed with all of the excitement of the old days (see cut). Result: the price of rye soared...
...House and demanded a Congressional investigation of rye. What he wanted to know: why did Commodity Credit Corp. help maintain the corner in rye by purchasing between four and five million bushels of rye last March for export at prices ranging from $1.18½ to $1.29 a bu.? At the time, Argentine rye was available at 64? a bu...