Word: bumper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twenty-five bicycle thefts have been reported to the University police since September. This may augur a bumper crop of bike stealing the rest of this year, as last years' total number of thefts was only about...
...exactly, said Anderson-Brundage. Congress and the Administration, between them, did in fact cut $2 billion out of the original budget. But the trimmings were more than offset by "a few upward revisions" partly due to inflation, partly due to ballooning programs that only Congress can change. Items: ¶ Bumper crops on the farms bumped up the cost of price supports by $739 million (total outlay for agriculture programs in the revised budget: $5 billion, or more than the combined spending of the Justice, Interior, Commerce, Labor, and Health, Education and Welfare departments...
...block. Other whites streamed behind. A one-armed man, his dimpled stump below his shirtsleeve, swung wildly at one Negro. Another Negro (a onetime U.S. marine) decided not to run, ambled with terrifying dignity through a gauntlet of blows, kicks and curses. A cop stood on a car bumper to get a better view. Other cops moved toward the fighting. Faubus Henchman James Karam cried angrily, "The nigger started it!" A huge man came up behind Karam and said: "Get five or six boys, and get them over there where the nigger kids came in last time." State Athletic Commissioner...
...LUXURY BUICK will be brought out next month in $5,000 class to compete with Cadillac, Lincoln and Chrysler Imperial. Dubbed the "Limited," car will measure 223 in. from bumper to bumper (8 in. longer than Roadmaster), will come in hardtop or convertible models with power windows, power steering, air-suspension ride and automatic transmission as standard equipment...
...Gross national product for 1956 was more than $7.5 billion, up 12% from the previous record year. Production of most foodstuffs was up, with bumper crops of wheat, sugar and beans. Livestock production climbed 11% in 1956; fish nets bulged 48% fatter...