Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hungry capital. Little boys resumed their sale of stuffed, varnished frogs. But Paraguay, too poor to afford a sewage system or central water works for its capital, would be a long time recovering from the latest revolution, its 27th in 41 years. Much of the nation's bumper crop of cotton, earlier estimated at 40,000.tons, had gone unpicked because workers feared conscription. Cattle had been slaughtered or driven away; production of quebracho extract, an export staple used in tanning, had dropped...
Chief cause of the upsurge was the Department of Agriculture's midseason crop report, even though prospects were described as "surprisingly good." The bumper wheat crop, greatest in U.S. history, looked even bigger than it had a few weeks ago. Now the estimate...
...rest of the summer, at least, the Midwest will have no more gasoline than in 1946-and consumption is up about 15%. The Midwest felt the pinch first because the railroads, swamped by the bumper wheat crop, could not haul enough tank cars. The East Coast, supplied by tanker, is luckier...
Small window decorations in New London proper and a bumper crop of balloon venders added something of the spectacular to the occasion but an all day drizzle today considerably dampened the spirits of the revelers...
Nevertheless, there is more sugar on hand than at any time in the last four years, thanks chiefly to a bumper Cuban crop of 6.1 million tons. In all, the U.S. expects to get 6.8 million tons of sugar, or almost half of this year's total world sugar supply of 15 million tons. The U.S. share is 1.4 million tons more than last year. The supply, enough for 85 to 90 pounds per capita, will still be short of the prewar consumption of 96.5 Ibs., and sugar men think that present demand is enough to push consumption...