Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They recognized that "the Black Hand," a baffling recurrent vine disease, has again touched with death the seemingly healthy grape-globes. The harvest, it is saul, will be burned. With bitterness the proprietors have noted that the coming of the pest has, as usual, been ironically concurrent with a bumper wheat crop in Europe. Scientists, vainly laboring in the vintners' laboratories at Rheims, are forced to admit once more that the ultimate riddle of champagne has not been solved...
Tariff. To this issue Conservatives cling as burrs to a Canadian longhorn. Like New Englanders they see a menace in every nutmeg that enters free of duty. Liberals will count on the prosperity engendered by a recent bumper harvest to offset discontent at their lowered tariff schedule...
...September, Explorer Amundsen will lecture formally in Oslo, then come to the U. S. to reap the bumper lecture-crop he needs to go on another Polar pilgrimage for Science...
...must provide means of preventing depression from overproduction. But the attempt of the Conference in finding a permanent solution for the problems of overproduction may well become ridiculous within the course of a decade or two, for the reason that there will be no problems of overproduction. Even a bumper wheat crop, such as that of the present year, will no longer supply a surplus for export in 25 to 35 years at the present rate of population increase in this country Already per capita crop production is 5% less than in the five years before the War. Meantime...
...effect in Central Europe will be even more serious. In Europe there are 300,000,000 bread-eaters, consuming about 550,000,000 bushels of wheat each year. France this year has a bumper crop and can feed herself...