Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bumper crops would not bring cheap food; the support program would keep most prices up, despite the huge surpluses. During fiscal 1949, CCC poured out $3.1 billion for loans and purchases to keep up prices on 31 commodities, just about five times the outlay in 1948. At the fiscal year's end in June, the agency had $2.3 billion tied up in loans and inventories, showing a paper loss of $356 million for the year at current market prices. Most of the support money went for only seven commodities: cotton, $822 million; corn, $470 million; wheat, $640 million; flaxseed...
...Bountiful Earth. New technologies which had fairly revolutionized agriculture were producing another year of bumper crops. Under man's ingenious hand, was the earth becoming more & more bountiful? Secretary of the Interior Julius Krug said he was thinking of asking for a "few hundred million dollars" to harness the sun to heating plants and farm production...
...Harvest. Since war's end, fans had been wondering impatiently when baseball's new crop of talent would be reaped. As the season neared its mid-point they had their answer. Dino Restelli was the most sensational of a bumper crop of rookies who had had to go to war before becoming big-leaguers...
Everyone knew that there had been a bumper crop of wartime and postwar babies in the U.S., but no one seemed to be doing anything about their future schooling. Last week Oscar R. Ewing, head of the Federal Security Agency, warned Congress that the babies, grown to moppet's estate, were about to swamp the U.S. school system with 1,000,000 extra schoolkids a year: what the country direly needs, said Oscar Ewing, is some 30,000 extra classrooms. Ewing's estimate of the minimum needed for new school construction in the next ten years: between...
Wrong Guess. The bears had made a bad guess. They had been banking on the fact that U.S. grain elevators were so clogged with surplus wheat from last year (TIME, June 6) that farmers would not be able to store the bumper crop now being harvested-and thus get no Government support loans on it. Dumped on the market, the grain would drive prices lower...