Word: bumper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dollar reserves last week were at an alltime high of $1,856,000,000, a 271% jump in five years. Record-breaking exports for the first seven months of 1952 have built a credit balance of $197 million. Only one cloud appeared on the business horizon: with a bumper wheat crop estimated at 650 million bushels, only 125 million of which she needs at home, Canada may have trouble disposing of the huge surplus...
...Congress. Iowa's farmers, who produce more corn, hogs, poultry and eggs than the farmers of any other state, make up the most powerful voting group. Today, Iowa is prosperous. Its endless fields of corn, heavy with the best crop in history, may well average a bumper 62 bushels an acre...
Chrysler Corp. has spent $200 million remodeling all its cars. Chrysler and De Soto have been redesigned from bumper to bumper. The boxiness of this year's models will be replaced by smoother, rounder lines. Chrysler may boost the 180 h.p. in its Fire-dome engine; other Chrysler cars will have a smaller version of the Fire-dome...
...shipments of steers since World War II's end. Some had come from such drought-parched areas as Oklahoma, where ranchers could not grass-feed them any longer. But most of the shipments were moving because of a simple fact: after six years of high beef prices and bumper corn crops for feed, U.S. ranges are bulging with 88 million head of beef cattle, the greatest in history...
Actually, the Indian food situation has greatly improved, thanks to i) good monsoon rains which have produced bumper crops; 2) 4,000,000 tons of grain ordered from abroad, mostly the U.S.; 3) a gift of 1,682 tons from the U.S. this year with no strings attached...