Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Average Bumper...
...from last spring's high of about $1.35 per bu. to 62?. Prices on the farm, always lower,are around 45?. Last year's abnormally short crop of 1,500,000,000 bu. was nearly a billion bushels below average. This year the estimated crop is a bumper 2,500,000,000 bu.-and there are fewer hogs, chickens and steers...
...bumper year of magazine management flips & flops, the publishing world has come to expect anything. In June when the Albert Shaws, father and son, paid Robert J. Cuddihy, Wilfred John Funk and others some $200,000 for the 47-year-old Literary Digest, merged it with the venerable Review oj Reviews as The Digest, it could be supposed that the Literary Digest was permanently in the journalistic limbo. Last week, however, it emerged from temporary eclipse with a new set of owners who will again call it Literary Digest...
...regional warehouses have been built to store produce which is the result of redoubled Mormon husbandry. In and around Salt Lake City, 125,000 Mormons were urged last fortnight to observe a special fast, abstaining from two meals and donating the money toward construction of more warehouses for current bumper crops...
World consumption of cotton for the twelve months ending in July was 30,700,000 bales, up 4,500,000 from the previous twelvemonth. A similar increase in world consumption this year would gobble most of the bumper crop. War is the chief threat, as was shown last week when Japan, best U. S. cotton customer, stopped buying it in order to conserve her gold. Brokers were quick to remember that cotton prices broke at the onset of the World War, then rose to a thumping 30? a lb. Hopes for increase in domestic consumption were dim last week. Anticipating...