Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ties were ready too, and the three of them went out quickly into the street to find orange juice and coffee and call for three size 12 brunettes. Vag sensed the excitement in the air; the crimson flags were already up along Mt. Auburn Street, cars lined the curbs bumper to bumper, and, for once, no one seemed to be carrying any books. The Vagabond began to whistle, stopped once self-consciously, but with a "what the hell," began again, emitting a slightly flat but very spirited "With Crimson in triumph flashing." Vag was prepared to face the world -- this...
From now through Thanksgiving millions of Americans would shape their lives to the Big Game. They would scramble for tickets, take long drives in bumper-to-bumper traffic, get cold, wet feet, have too many drinks and get that tired feeling on Mondays. But they would love...
...Bumper to bumper, thousands of Detroit cars nosed through the Detroit-Windsor tunnel. They were headed across the border for Canadian steaks. In Windsor, Vancouver, Niagara Falls and other border towns, Americans ate luscious two-inch steak dinners for $2 or less. U.S. newspapers, running pictures of the lucky feeders, made millions of meatless Americans drool last week...
...Russia, said Minister of Agriculture I. A. Benediktov, is on the way to a bumper wheat crop...
...shortage of the railroad cars on which most of U.S. business rolls. Example: in Auburn, N.Y., International Harvester Co. was producing enough farm machinery to fill 45 freight cars a day, but only two empty cars a day were backing onto its sidings. The tremendous job of moving the bumper crops made the shortage worse. Millions of bushels of wheat were lying around on farms or spilling on the ground beside elevators (see cut) for lack of cars; the grain would take months to move...