Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chance were any of you in the neighborhood of the tunnel exit yesterday? Or the bridge ramp this side? A disgusting spectacle. Here were hundreds of American cars, lined up bumper to bumper, coming to Windsor for just one thing. Gas. The Government allows each 'tourist' twelve gallons. All he has to say is that he's going to Tilbury or Stoney Point or Leamington or North Bay. ... He gets the little book...
...greatest campaign of the year in Asia opened last week amid the yellow stubble of South China's rice paddies, just harvested of their bumper crop. At Hengyang the Japanese had won the battle of Hunan. There they had paused for regrouping, to consolidate their supply lines and to rest their troops. Twice in a month they had feinted, first due south toward Canton, next southwest toward Kweilin, site of a major Fourteenth Air Force base. Both times they had halted, not yet certain they had the preponderant strength needed to finish...
...Chinese lost Hengyang (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), but last week they had better news than a military victory. For a bumper rice crop-in some provinces the best in 40 years-China's peasants gave thanks to Lao Tien Yieh, Old Father Heaven...
...Szechwan alone the grain yield would be at least 250,000,000 piculs (600,000,000 bushels), or 40 to 50% above last year. Kansu, Honan, and Shensi had already harvested their biggest wheat crops in 15 years. Yunnan, too, expected a bumper crop. In the great metropolitan collection depots the Government's rat-proof bins bulged with grain piled in wicker baskets twice as high as a man's head. River junks and sampans had to be used for emergency grain storage...
...pushed up prices for hogs, eggs and milk. In 1942 their gross income soared to $4,200. Despite these comparative riches, the Walls resolutely held their living expenses at the $500 level-and they made two payments to FSA totaling $2,300. Then 1943 was even better. They had bumper crops. Their gross was up another 20%, and Joe Wall made four trips to FSA, paid off $3,500. Doggedly they kept expenses down, made old machinery do, and resisted the temptation to buy more land...