Word: bumpered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feed grain dealers and elevator operators, the wheat cannot move fast enough. Bumper harvests have gorged Midwestern elevators, and millions of bushels of corn and sorghum have just been dumped on the ground. In Hannibal, Mo., the corn is higher than an elephant's eye. Smack in the middle of lower Broadway lie 57,304 bushels of corn in a pile two stories high. The U.S. has lately sold corn to Hungary. Would Russia like some...
...shared. In October, 105 companies raised their dividends, reported Moody's Investors Service. So far this year, 937 companies have boosted dividends. Last week IBM increased its dividend by 250 for the second time in 1963, to $1.25 a share. Deere & Co., with profits up 30% in a bumper crop year, raised its dividend a nickel to 600, declared a year-end extra of 350 and proposed a two-for-one split...
...little effect on the millions of Frenchmen who cannot resist aller aux champignons-tramping into the woods for mushrooms when the delicacies sprout, with particular abundance, during the first turning of the leaves. Last week, thanks to a wretchedly wet summer, the Gallic countryside was laden with a bumper crop-and some 45 persons were dead of mushroom poisoning. Countless others lay ill at home or in hospitals...
...allow little room for maneuvering, but cars with "O" plates (indicating the diplomatic corps) swing arrogantly into "no parking" zones and further complicate the traffic problem. Police rarely ticket diplomatic drivers, knowing that they will use their immunity to avoid answering the summons. When a British correspondent had the bumper ripped off his car by a speeding Ivory Coast diplomat passing on the wrong side, the police waved on the African at the flash of his passport, but corralled the newsman as a "trouble maker." Realizing that immunity can be abused, British Ambassador Sir Frank Roberts has forbidden his staff...
...harvest time, the Soviet press is usually full of propaganda hoopla about the bumper grain crops brought in by happy teams of Communist pioneers...