Word: bu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Northwest elevators, with storage capacity of 315,000,000 bu., are 80 to 90% filled with last year's carryover, will be short some 60 million bushels of storage space this year...
...farmers the problem is serious. To get AAA loans, their wheat must be properly stored: in terminal, or country elevators, or on the farm. But Northwestern farmers already have some 70,000,000 bu. accumulated in makeshift storage bins, and much of this must soon be moved to better storage if it is to be saved...
...plain butadiene, a gas which is easily liquefied under pressure to form the basic building-blocks of most synthetic rubbers. Butadiene molecules were first polymerized-or built up into larger molecules-with the help of metallic sodium, making a stretchy substance which its German inventors about 1927 called Buna (Bu for butadiene, Na for sodium). It was not a very satisfactory synthetic: but better than the methyl rubber (dimethyl butadiene) of World War I, when it was said German Army trucks often had to be jacked up overnight so that their solid tires would not flatten out permanently under their...
...Chicago next day wheat, at a four-year high of $1.20 a bu., broke 3?, corn 2?. In Washington six Senators from the farm belt announced that a small group was trying "to control prices by indiscriminate and ruthless use of surpluses...
...last week crop experts foresaw a harvested soybean crop of 110,000,000 bushels-plus perhaps as much again that will be plowed under as fertilizer, used as pasturage, cured as hay or stored as silage. Next year the U.S. may well overtake Manchukuo (140,000,000 bu.) as the No. 2 soybean producer on earth, surpassed only by giant China (217,000,000 bu...