Word: bu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...BU the Crimson has a perfect stepping stone to what may be a brighter future. Until the Terriers stopped Northeastern on Wednesday night, they had lost five straight ball games, and have found the general going pretty tough this winter...
...normal" corn-hog ratio of 11-to-1 (i.e., 100 lb. of hogs is equal in price 11-to-1 bu. of corn) is just enough to keep hog production on an even keel. Today the ratio is about...
...effect cornered the wheat market. As a result the small supply of free wheat available to millers has soared to the highest price since 1937. But the selling price of flour has been pegged by OPA to Sept. 28-Oct. 2 levels-when wheat was 9? to 12? a bu. cheaper. This price squeeze on the millers has now become so great that many have stopped buying wheat and have withdrawn offers to sell flour...
Only a second and a half ahead of BU and ten seconds behind the Fifties, Tech managed to hold a lead picked up at the Massachusetts Avenue bridge over the Terriers and crossed the line in fourth place. The smooth-water Redskins, badly troubled by big waves whipped up by a three quarter tail wind brought up the rear...
...known wherever wheat is grown in the Western world. Her uncanny accuracy in estimating the yield of Canada's wheatland made her final figures gospel in the world's exchanges. Once (1909) she missed by only one-half of one percent on a 118,719,000-bu. crop. From 1904 until 1933 she failed only twice to make a guess: in 1912, which was too wet for even a rough estimate; in 1926, when...