Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Opposed to the principle of dear wheat was Great Britain, a great wheat-buying nation. Argentina (quota: 110,000,000 bu.) was willing to accept a higher price for its wheat on condition that its quota be raised this year 40,000,000 bu. Perfect weather had produced a bumper crop overflowing Argentina's limited granaries. The Argentines want to unload at any price. The three other big wheat-selling countries offered to lend Argentina 20,000,000 bu. of their quotas, provided she would reduce her acreage...
Next to Josef Stalin the most hotly publicized hero in all Soviet Russia is stocky, thick-mustached Lazare Moiseyevich Kaganovich, a smart, ruthless Jew who is credited with leading and driving the Russian peasantry to sow and reap their bumper harvest (TIME...
...previous year in Soviet or Tsarist times, a grand and overflowing total of 89,800,000 metric tons (3,323,000.000 bushels). In wheat, again according to Izvestia, Russian production was nearly double that of the U. S. in 1933 and almost equal to the 1915 U. S. wheat bumper of bumpers...
...Molotov, after burrowing through his usual mound of statistics, emerged to say that the Second Five-Year Plan, now entering its second year, will "make life brighter and better for our people." Claiming that the production of Russia's heavy industries was upped 11% last year and that bumper crops had wiped out the grain shortage, Premier Molotov admitted that the meat shortage is still acute...
...time is approaching when the problem of war debts must be given a decent burial. If the administration opens hasty, ill-considered negotiations now, it will be rewarded with a bumper crop of defaults. If it shows a meek willingness to take what is offered, the nominal sum which crosses the Atlantic will have more of a nuisance value than a commercial one, and will tangibly lower the nation's diplomatic batting average. The failure of ninety-five per cent of the debt-payments due last year resulted not merely from the poverty of the defaulting and token-paying countries...