Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BUMPER WHEAT CROP is due despite retirement of more than 12 million acres into soil bank, may total only 3% less than 1956, thus piling up bigger surpluses. Farmers retired poor land, are producing more on good land, while drought-breaking rains have already pushed winter wheat harvest 27% above ten-year average of 18.6 bushels per acre...
More than 500 billboards, thousands of orange-and-black bumper tags and regular TV and radio announcements proclaimed Graham's advent. In Madison Square Garden, still flavored with the tang of the recently departed circus, huge, fragrant vanloads of flowers were unloaded. For Billy, who calls himself "the Lord's master of ceremonies," carpenters hoisted a towering pulpit. "Every seat will be a good seat . . . There'll be nothing between him and you," a crusade official explained. "We always design it that...
...Moss, on the other hand, the trick is to floorboard the throttle and hope the car holds together. The exhilaration of acceleration more than makes up for worry about mechanical failure. For the last few years, that exhilaration has kept the nervy Briton nudging at Fangio's rear bumper in Grand Prix competition...
...repairing battered cars and compensating maimed humans has shot up; claims now cost an average 41% more to settle than they did five years ago. A smashed fender that once could be replaced by a simple, curved piece of metal now involves large molded panels with sculptured lights. The bumper that cost $5 in 1940 now costs $20. In the good old days of divided windshields, the company could put in a new unit for $25. Adjusters expect the 1957 wraparound type will cost around $125. State Farm Vice President Thomas Morrill says that windshield replacements account for about...
Three years of mismanagement by an increasingly corrupt military dictatorship has brought the Republic of Colombia to the brink of economic chaos. Despite good coffee prices and a bumper crop, Colombia is in debt by over 350 million dollars, more than its entire income from coffee exports for the first eight months of 1956. Her currency has depreciated, her credit has been seriously damaged, and her foreign exchange reserves reduced to a dangerously low level...