Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time the ball clubs reached Chicago for the fourth game, a bumper crop of 400 flip-flopping newsmen had made the Cubs 11-to-5 favorites again. Grimm's frisky Cubs seemed to have more life than the lifeless Tigers-even on the bench. Jolly Cholly got kissed by Actress June Haver, and was told by Mrs. Grimm not to come home without a victory. But Steve O'Neill had been busy brewing a batch of pitching TNT-Trout, Newhouser, Trucks...
...bumper rice crop is coming up - the only bright spot I see in the coming winter of privation. The dipsy-doodle price of rice shows how values have changed. It shot to 280 yen per bushel in the Japs' latter days. At the end, hoarded stocks were dumped. The price fell to 28 yen (briefly) and by now is back to 100 to 120 yen on the black market. The Army has set a military exchange rate of 15 yen to the dollar. But 25 or 30 would be more realistic...
...tons. Thus the U.S. was forced to turn to Cuba to try to make up the difference. Until the drought, Cuba fortunately produced sugar far in excess of her peacetime quota. Now, the only hope for an end to rationing lies in the ability of Cuba to produce a bumper crop this spring...
...fertile undulating corner of Nebraska last week produced a bumper crop of artistic excitement. David City and Shelby -18 miles apart-were each sporting a one-man painting exhibition by a native son. Both shows, first ever staged in these Nebraska towns, were smash hits. They were also too coincidental for comfort. Almost before the ink was dry on the invitations, Shelbyans and David Cityans were hopping mad at each other. There was even talk of letting the artists settle their differences with pitchforks...
...With a bumper crop of novices in prospect (some from the armed services), Father Superior Whittemore is optimistic of his Order's future. Says he: "Our pres ent problem ... is to adjust the principles of monasticism to the 20th Century. We must dare, by God's help, to live dangerously...