Word: bumper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Point Four aid is being handled. For instance, a $1,200,000 emergency shipment of U.S. wheat was stopped short at Amman, and never found its way across the Jordan River for distribution to the needy in Jerusalem. The reason: Jordan, quite suddenly, discovered that she had a bumper wheat crop coming up, and that this foreign wheat, which had been sought to avert serious famine, would drive prices down. In the meantime, Jerusalem has almost no wheat, and bread is short...
...thousand Taft workers were ringing doorbells, saturating the state with newspaper ads, radio programs, buttons, auto-bumper cards and literature. Taft & Co. were shooting the works in boom-busting Wisconsin.* Campaign Manager Dave Ingalls had said: "If we don't win in Wisconsin we'd better go home...
...without such essentials as drains, pumps, etc.) was put on the market last week by the Bakelite Co. The homeowner digs a 13-by-27-ft. hole 3 to 5 ft. deep and fits in the plastic liner, which holds more than 10,000 gallons of water. An inflatable bumper ($75 extra), fastened to the top of the liner, prevents water from splashing out of the pool. The pool can be emptied by either a pipe outlet system or a sump pump...
Although one student complained of ending up with only a loss of sleep and the loss of his car bumper in an accident while trying to get to school on time for the class, the average student raised his speed of comprehension about 80 percent on the tests given. The instructors warn against accepting too literally the meaning of these test scores. Along with the students, they seem to feel that the general gains in confidence and "know how" in approaching reading material were of equal importance...
...Bumper's Bumper. Chicago's Hush Bumpers, Inc. is ready to put on sale pneumatic plastic auto-bumper guards which can be attached next to standard bumper guards or used to replace them entirely. The Shmoo-shaped hush bumpers come in a variety of car colors. In tests, they absorbed the shock of a car collision at 12 m.p.h. Price...