Word: bumper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gospeling is up-and-doing Dr. Harry P. Stagg, 55, a minister who came to New Mexico from Louisiana in 1930, and has been executive secretary of the New Mexico Baptists for the past 15 years. Rotarian Stagg has pushed mission work and evangelistic camp meetings, to harvest a bumper crop of conversions from ranchers and cowboys, Indians and Spanish-Americans: about 20 New Mexican towns now have "Spanish Baptist" churches...
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...choice. The 1938 Agricultural Adjustment Act, still in effect, says that the wheat-marketing restriction machinery must be thrown into gear when the wheat supply reaches the "crisis point." That point is keyed to the prospects for domestic consumption and export of wheat. When this year's bumper crop is in, the total supply is expected to be 17 billion bushels,† the greatest on record, 28% above the crisis point...
...bumper wheat crop, with the carryover, would give the U.S. the greatest supply of wheat in its history, and almost certainly force the Agriculture Department to cut back wheat planting next year-an unpopular move with farmers. But it seems unlikely that 1954 production could be shaved by more than 15%. The House Agriculture Committee last week approved a bill barring the Agriculture Department from cutting minimum acreage below 66 million acres (v. 55 million under present law), although acreage allotments have been under 66 million in five of "the six years in which they have been imposed since...
Long-barbed durum wheat-the kind that is good for pasta-is turning gold in Sicily and Calabria. Soon the harvest will begin, rolling up the toe and shin and length of the Italian boot-possibly a bumper crop like last year's. Meanwhile, there are almonds to be picked on the rolling plains of Puglia, forage grass to be cut in the lush Po Valley, cherries to be picked off the greyish flatlands around Naples. And a bumper crop of tourists-perhaps 6,000,000 -is descending on Italy, eager to be harvested. To the tourist...