Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following year 16,500,000 bags were bought up and pledged under a $97,000,000 foreign loan with the idea of liquidating both the loan and the coffee over a period of ten years. In 1931 Brazil was again knocked to her knees with another bumper crop. Finance Minister Oswaldo Aranha, now Ambassador to the U. S. (see p. 9), slapped a tax on exports, and the proceeds were used to buy coffee for destruction. The burning and dumping had hardly begun before the 1933 crop turned out to be the biggest in history-nearly 30,000,000 bags...
...bumper crop of Harvard freshmen was reached in 1932 when a total of 1167 were admitted. Last year the class was second in sixe only to the unusually large entering class of 1932. The figures for this year while, at present, closely approaching the record number of 1932 will be considerably depleted before September 21 for there are annually a large number of men who fail to register. The Committee on Admissions aims to keep the class within 1000, because accommodations are available for approximately that number...
...full 20 minutes of quiet granted by exchanges to take in the cotton situation. For the past few years the world has used about 14,000,000 bales of U. S. cotton annually- 6,000,000 bales within the U. S.. 8,000,000 bales abroad. Successive bumper crops over a long period piled up a surplus of U. S. cotton which on Aug. 1 stood at 11,000,000 bales. The small 1934 crop would reduce this carryover to some 6,000,000 bales, almost normal. There would be nothing like a shortage but supply and demand would...
...cinema opens with a brass fanfare and a series of shiny Fords rolling toward the audience. One stops and its bumper becomes a pair of lips to announce what is to follow. Thereafter there are no spoken words or titles. The cellos are portentous when Henry Ford's face appears on the screen. It fades out to reveal a plant interior, flashes of molten metal, men at work. A bouncing little refrain is the motif of the Ford engine, repeated every time, the motor is shown. As the automobile is slowly assembled the music melodically suggests hammering, welding, tapping...
...bumped a taxi. Out of the taxi stepped three members of the New York Stock Exchange: its onetime President Edward Henry Harriman Simmons, with an injured shoulder; its Governor Herbert G. Wellington, with a cut lip; its Vice President Allen Ledyard Lindley, badly shaken. Total damage, as estimated by Bumper Cannon: "Trivial." Last week damage suits were filed against Bumper Cannon charging negligent driving. Total damage, as estimated by Messrs. Simmons, Wellington & Lindley...