Word: bumpered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years the six Common Market partners discussed the problem of opening their frontiers to one another's agricultural produce. Because powerful farmers' associations in each country had to be considered and appeased, the resulting agreements apparently proved too rigid to cope with bumper crops everywhere. The accords forbid selling surplus produce within the market and call, instead, for destruction of perishable crops when prices sink to a fixed minimum level. The purpose was to protect the farmer by assuring him a reasonable income...
...makes the soup that Campbell sells by the millions of cans, botanists have been working for years on different strains of Lycopersicon esculentum. Last week the soup-tomato crop was ripening right on time, as the scientists intended, but for once its punctuality was a disaster. Just when the bumper crop was ready to be picked from California to New Jersey, the Campbell Soup Co. found itself saddled with a strike...
...concern. The Republicans are particularly worried because of his strength in the South. Boosters of both Nelson Rockefeller and Ronald Reagan are using the Wallace threat in their attempts to pry loose Richard Nixon's convention delegates. Florida's Republican Governor Claude Kirk is distributing an arithmetical bumper sticker: 2P÷ GW= H³ Translation: Two parties divided by George Wallace equals Hubert Horatio Humphrey. The Democrats, also, fear that Wallace could hurt them in blue-collar areas outside Dixie...
...something called a "Phooey-gram," a telegram sent directly to Maddox bearing nothing save the sender's name and one word-"Phooey." Already hundreds of Phooey-grams have been wired to the capitol, and Moore plans to kick off an entire Phooey campaign, complete with Phooey buttons, Phooey bumper stickers, and even a sky writer to spell out the word high above Atlanta's state capitol. And there's more to come, says Moore, since "we have not yet begun to phooey...
...notable loser is Ford's Mustang, whose sales have dropped an abysmal 24.5% since Jan. 1. The pull of the intermediates-about the same bumper-to-bumper length as the full-sized cars of eight years ago-seems to reflect a conservative trend in auto buying. In part, this is attributed to a more mature group of buyers: many youngsters, who would normally buy the hot-shot styles, are either in the military service or anticipating a call...