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...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...
...Washington was written to commemorate his appointment as commander in chief of the Continental Army. A watery, hymnlike piece reminiscent of O Worship the King, it is chiefly remarkable for its naive but hearty lyrics, also supplied by Hopkinson, e.g., " 'Tis Washington's health / Fill a bumper all round / For he is our glory and pride...
...fishermen. But for two weeks each August, the little town's white frame hotels are crowded with tourists, and the high school volleys forth provocative music expertly played. Last week the fifth Peninsula Music Festival was in full " swing in Fish Creek; as usual, it featured a bumper crop of modern premieres-half a dozen in two weeks...
WHEAT COMBINES HARVESTING TROUBLEMAKING BUMPER CROP IN BENTON COUNTY, WASH. 12 TIME , AUGUST...
...yardsticks of common sense, the promise of a bumper harvest ought to measure up as an unmixed blessing. But in the U.S. of 1957, the soil's abundance has become a costly national problem that turns values topsy-turvy, makes good crop weather seem a national calamity and drought a boon. In a year of bountiful crops, the Agriculture Department will spend a record $5 billion, largely in an effort to cope with surpluses. Instead of going to markets, countless tons of the wheat, corn and cotton harvested last week will swell the $5.5 billion worth of farm surpluses...