Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million U.S. farmers took in $19 billion last year. That was $3.5 billion above 1942 and more than twice as good as their $8.5 billion average for the five years 1935-39-This bumper harvest of dollars was partly due to higher prices. For their produce farmers collected about 20% more than they charged in 1942. At year's end farm prices had soared to 15% above "parity," and the ill-famed farm lobby, with nothing much remaining to fight for, was left brooding over new formulas for a bigger and better "parity...
...years of 1937 to 1942 were all years of bumper crops. We came to accept these good yields as normal, and erroneously planned our food strategy on the assumption of continued high production. Four thousand years ago in Egypt Joseph was more realistic...
...nation's bumper crop of babies, the wise men of WPB had good tidings. Since last April, when a limitation was placed on the use of steel in infant vehicles, most babies have had to bump along in rickety wooden carriages, strollers, walkers and pushcarts. Last week, lifting this particular restriction, WPB hoped to allot enough metal to permit the manufacture of some 700,000 prewar model carriages this year. (Anticipated births...
...field. Empty gasoline tins, hammered flat and cut to size, have made many a patch for bullet and flak holes. Said an A.S.C. general to bug-eyed factory engineers back in the U.S.: "Did you know that you could straighten a prop blade by wedging it in the bumper of a two-and-a-half-ton truck, then backing the truck until the kink was gone. ... It was done and the airplane flew...
...Novelists. It was a bumper year for best-selling first novelists (most of them women) and writers with one or two books already published who switched from the remainder lists to the best-seller lists. Among the former were: Betty Smith, whose A Tree Grows in Brooklyn ($2.75) sold 460,000 copies in four months, Ilka Chase (In Bed We Cry, $2.50), Elizabeth Janeway (The Walsh Girls, $2.50), Helen Howe (The Whole Heart, $2.50), Allan Seager (Equinox, $2.75). Notable among the second group were Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead, $3) and Christine Weston, who with two unknown novels...