Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...production in the Midwest is 30 to 40% less than a year ago, despite a bumper crop of feed corn. The reason: the price of corn is fixed too high in relation to the fixed price of hogs...
Mexican authorities admitted that it would take many such raids to stop the bumper north-bound traffic. The facts...
...Census Bureau last week produced a new estimate of the U.S. population, as of Jan. 1, 1945: 139,126,000. A bumper crop of war babies was Census' explanation for the 7,000,000-plus increase since 1940. Looking ahead, Census predicted a peak population of some 163,500,000 in 1975-1980, then a slow decline...
...supply Australia's, as well as Argentina's, wheat customers, including Britain and the Middle East. At present the U.S. and Canada have the wheat but not the shipping. New Zealand. While the gods laughed, New Zealand got too much of what Australia lacked. Hopes for a bumper wheat crop this season were dashed by floods which washed out fields...
...west as Minnesota and Kansas, grain-elevator operators felt the pinch for cars. In Nebraska farmers cried that 100 million bu. of corn (one-third of Nebraska's bumper corn harvest last year) would spoil unless they got cars to move the grain to storage elevators...