Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fear the Devil. The bumper harvest brought a big problem to all U.S. wheat farmers, and it was not the weather; it was what to do with the crop. There was no place to store it. Most of the nation's bins and elevators were still bulging with last year's wheat. The situation in Texas was typical: there was enough storage space to hold around 140 million bushels, but three-fifths of it was already filled with 1948 wheat and grain sorghums. That meant there was only room for this year's first 55 million bushels...
Diploma holders seeking employment will have to buck against fever jobs and a bumper crop of graduates, Ewen Clague, Federal Commissioner of Labor Statistics, said in a statement yesterday...
...news in food came out of the Agriculture Department. In its new crop forecast for 1949, the Bureau of Agricultural Economics estimated-normal or bumper crops of almost everything. BAE estimated the winter wheat crop at a whopping 1,019,686,000 bu., well over last year's 990,098,000, and second only to 1947's record 1,068,048,000 bu. With good weather and a probable 325-million-bu. carryover from the 1948 crop, the U.S. would be up to its ears in wheat by summer. What with good crops and lower prices, the Bureau...
...than last year, when a similar agreement died in the Senate. Then U.S. farmers, with wheat bringing $2.60 a bu., laughed down the proposed world price of $2 a bu. Now the price of wheat was down to around $2.25 a bu. and-with a huge carryover and another bumper crop in prospect-a price of $1.98 might soon look good...
...Chicago's Federal Court last week, Preston Tucker's company and his rear-engined "car of tomorrow" looked like the one-hoss shay. If not bankrupt, the company seemed only a bumper's length away. The court appointed two trustees in reorganization to operate the business for the next 60 days, then submit a plan for reorganization along with a report on the "desirability of continuance...