Word: bu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHEAT GLUT is still growing, will push up another 75 million bu. by the end of fiscal 1955, predicts Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson. Estimated total for Benson's No. 1 surplus headache: 975 million bu., most of it in Government storage bins...
After the show, the petition passing started again. A firm looking man cornered a BU student outside and asked him to sign a pro-McCarthy circular...
...news that 1954's cotton plantings, which had been cut 21% under 1953's. largely as a result of Government controls, would produce only 12 million bales v. 16.5 million last year. But corn production, despite a 17.4% cut in acreage, was estimated at 3.3 billion bu., about 135 million more than last year's crop and nearly 255 million higher than the ten-year average...
Last week the Senate: ¶After long consideration, amended the 1928 Standard Container Act by legalizing a smaller, round stave, ⅜-bu. basket for fruits and vegetables. Already legal are ⅜-bu. baskets made of splints, but, explained Florida's Spessard Holland, these are less satisfactory for tree-ripened fruit. ¶ Passed a $29 billion defense appropriation after voting down, 38 to 50, Massachusetts' John Kennedy's attempt to add $350 million to keep the Army at its present 19-division strength. Michigan's Homer Ferguson argued that the cost of continuing the two divisions...
...Supreme Court's decision in the public school segregation cases. The court's ruling could not be determined immediately." At 1:12 the A.P. sent a second message to editors all over the world, who had been awaiting the momentous decision. Warren was attacking segregation in schools, bu " the Chief Justice had not read far enough in the court's opinion for newsmen to say that segregation was being struck down as unconstitutional...