Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...road a mile-long column of German vehicles traveling bumper to bump er was caught by Allied attack planes, which smashed or burned nearly every one. In Washington, Secretary Stimson declared that the amount of wrecked or abandoned German transport in some places was actually hampering Allied prog ress. Mr. Stimson added with a twinkle in his eye that this was a kind of delay "to which our ground forces could be easily reconciled...
Massey-Harris Co. got the materials, and delivered most of the machines to points in Oklahoma and Texas in time to catch the bumper harvests. Last week the brigade was deep in the endless stretches of wheat in Kansas...
These are wheat dunes, not sand dunes, piled outside the local grain elevator at Hitchland, Tex. All through the Southwest last week a shortage of railroad cars and bin space forced farmers to pile their bumper crop of wheat in wind-drifted heaps. Labor was also short. Hardest hit were the small elevators that lack mechanical unloading devices-few men want the backbreaking job of scooping wheat from the cars. Result: at Kansas City, 4,800 loaded cars were stalled in the yards, while anxious farmers feared that their wheat would spoil if heavy rains came...
...valley period. For the tasks of peace should not confound a people who had learned how to build a Liberty ship in seven days, who worked an average of 52 hours a week to keep the thundering trains rolling, and who plowed their vast fields by moonlight to raise bumper crops...
...been estimated on May i at 150,000,000 bu. for all Kan sas; by June 1 the crop looked more like 165,000,000 bu. 20,000,000 bu. more than last year. By night, with stubby pencils the Ford County farmers reckoned their profits, at a bumper prospect of 30 bu. an acre. They figured they would get $1.50 a bu., biggest price in a good year since 1919. By day, the farmers fretted over the things that could go wrong. Hail storms or heavy rain could lay whole fields flat. A spell of 100-degree heat might...