Word: bumper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deal assured the sale of the whole 1953 sugar crop plus part of the worrisome 1,400,000-ton carry-over from last year's bumper harvest...
...bumper crop of war babies helped the business to get back on key; so did the shorter work week, which provided more leisure time to enjoy music. Nowadays, some 2,000 U.S. cities have classical-music concerts each year, twice as many as before the war. Says President R. C. (for Reuben Charles) Rolfing of Chicago's Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., biggest piano maker in the U.S.: "People are getting back more & more to wanting to do something for themselves-entertaining themselves." Many piano makers, such as Cincinnati's Baldwin Co., have helped the boom along with smart styling...
...most agricultural products, not only the U.S. but Europe had near-record bumper crops last year. On had both sides of the ocean, barring an extension of the Korean war, nations are faced with surpluses of everything from wheat to dairy products...
...President Magloire plans to rely mainly on the gros nègres, the natural leaders of the rural communities, such as Dorneirl Romeus, 23, one of the first sharecroppers to lease five acres at Bois Dehors, the valley's pilot irrigation project. Dorneirl netted $211 on his first bumper rice crop; before, he lived all year on a near-starvation diet and ended up with $10 cash. Now farmers who know him are eager for the completion of the Artibonite project, so that they can follow his example. Reclaiming, leveling and watering the entire 80,000 acres will require...
...needed in the cold-war economy of 1952. In any case, the Administration's controls were a mockery; price and wage bosses went in & out of office so fast that most civilians hardly knew-or cared-who was in charge. The tremendous flood of industrial production, plus a bumper farm crop, kept prices stable and checked inflation. By year's end. commodities were down 12½%, almost back to their pre-Korea level...