Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sundown (pop. 1,500) rabid football citizens dug deep for $3,000 to pay a good coach; Brownsville anted a fat $5,000 for its coach. By adding a bumper-to-bumper motorcade to the first (so they claimed) postwar-special football train, practically all of Odessa's inhabitants trekked 170 miles to see their team play Abilene...
...lacking any other weapon, she chased him down the street with the family automobile. Husband Hugh Humphrey, a butler by trade, dodged nimbly into a driveway, discovered too late it was a dead end. His wife drove in after him and squashed him to death between the bumper and a cellar door...
After a quick look at the citrus fruit market, OPA decided that this year's bumper crop was more than enough to meet demand. So last week it removed citrus ceilings until Jan. 13. The effect was like jabbing a grapefruit: instantly citrus prices squirted skyhigh all over the U.S. Example: in Seattle, lemons went up within two hours from the ceiling of $5.76 a crate to $9.50. Grapefruit went up $1.25 a crate. Oranges jumped from $4.63 to $7.50 a crate...
Last week the Blunt twins were cashing in also. Their company started to process eight million pounds of popcorn this year, and will ship 90 carloads all over the U.S. And Oklahoma's bumper crop, worth about $1.5 million, is being pushed into second place among popcorn growing States (Iowa, which grows about 30% of the nation's popcorn, is first). There was only one catch: the Popcorn Processors Association, meeting in Chicago Nov. 30, has one main item on the agenda: finding new uses for this year's huge crop. *Among others once astonished...
...lines at each of the sprawling plant's 17 gates grew longer, thicker, more sullen. On Monday, 8,500 additional workers-from Windsor's Chrysler, Gar Wood, Kelsey Wheel and some 20 other smaller plants, walked out in sympathy. Pickets began erecting street barricades (hundreds of autos, bumper to jumper...