Word: bumper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...using the taxpayers' money-was able to remind farmers that the Democratic Party wouldn't let even nature "take it away." The surprising paradox is that the "ins" are able simultaneously to garner political credits from a disastrous drought in some parts of the U.S., and bumper harvests in others...
...state of New York, which has 13,757 miles of paved road, discovered that its cars and trucks, if placed bumper to bumper, would stretch for 14,676 miles. Meanwhile, the six-month-old multiple-lane New Jersey Turnpike, built to eliminate congestion and cross-traffic, had its 29th fatality...
Last Sunday night, driving back from Scranton, Pa., it was my bad luck to be caught in a crawling, honking, bumper-to-bumper traffic snarl, and I was reminded again of one of the most famous stories ever published in TIME...
...rains had been kind, and the harvests big. After four parched years, in which discontent grew, 1951 had been a bumper year, and crop prospects were excellent again. Last week Francisco Franco had cheering news for his hard-pressed people: they could throw away the ration cards which they have been using ever since he came to power...
...highways north of Chicago were jammed bumper-to-bumper one night last week. Said Deputy Sheriff George Bock: "It was just like Labor Day traffic." To Ray Radigan, an astonished restaurant owner in Kenosha, Wis., it was more like New Year's Eve. He had to hire extra help to cope with 484 diners, while hundreds of other customers perched on radiators or juggled drinks and sandwiches in the cocktail lounge...