Word: bu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young go-getters in Rochelle, Ill. (pop. 5,400), Frank and James Spellman were doing nicely buying, selling and trucking grain. Then they expanded, and bought a grain elevator. In 1949, they got a contract with the Agriculture Department's Commodity Credit Corp. to store 200,000 bu. of grain. The Spellmans, both in their early 303, began expanding faster. They added to their fleet of trucks, worked into real-estate deals, began shipping grain to Chicago by rail...
...Marshall" has become part of the language. It means easy installments. Vedad Baykurt, a young businessman, says that when the peasant comes into a farm equipment store these days, his first question is, "Bu Marshall mi? [Is this Marshall?]," meaning, can I buy this on 20% down and 20% each year for five years, borrowing the down payment from the Agricultural Bank...
Displaced Rattlers. Last week one pump was running, slowly filling a 27-mile lake in the desert-bottomed Coulee. As the water advances, it pushes ahead of it a wave of displaced rattlesnakes. One bu-reauman killed 51 in a morning...
...award is presented by the Burma Translation Society, which is headed by Prime Minister Thakin Nu. It goes to the best novel of the year, in this case On Pe's Min Hmu Dan ("The Civil Servant"), a story of the corrupt bu reaucracy run by Burmese and British officials during Britain's rule in Burma...
Third period: Denning (unassisted) 0:35; Garrity (unassisted) 17:23. Penalty: Denning (BU), interference...