Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Started five years ago as the College's answer to the bumper crop of wartime babies, the Nursery in the finest answer for the vet Ph.D. candidate who would write his thesis without untimely interruption for block building and sundry other distractions of child-rearing...
...record of wheat prices in the past three months showed how one bird had flown. During July the price of wheat futures at Chicago rose from $2.12 in June to $2.35. Predictions of a bumper wheat crop had knocked the price off a little, but when reports of a bad corn crop came in, the wheat price soared again. The day the Paris conferees announced Europe's needs, it climbed to $2.66. Two weeks after Harry Truman announced the food-saving program, the price hit a high...
...warning bulletins. Floridians had 48 hours to get set for the impact. From Miami to Palm Beach, store fronts were boarded up, windows shuttered, shelters made ready. Out of Pahokee, in the Okeechobee farmlands, chugged two evacuation trains, carrying 5,000 refugees. Another 10,000 headed upstate in a bumper-to-bumper auto caravan...
That did not end the argument as far as the issue of amateurism was concerned. As everyone knew, teams drawing bumper crowds were piling up receipts. Although club owners wouldn't talk, payments to players in eastern Canada's Big Four Union-Toronto Argonauts, Montreal Alouettes, Hamilton Tigers and Ottawa Rough Riders-reputedly ranged from $50 to $150 a game, with some players getting from $1,500 to $5,000 a season. In spite of the Revenue Department's ruling, Canada's rugger players seemed strictly professional...
...worst news of all was that the U.S., which had had ten years of good crops, and which is the largest single supplier, this year had to record a failure. It had been a bumper year again for wheat, but the corn crop had withered. The total supplies of U.S. cereals, as estimated last week, were 14,400,000 tons under 1946, which was almost exactly the amount the U.S. had exported to needy nations...