Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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COTTON-CROP SUPPORTS will drop below 90% of parity next year (probably to 80%) for the first time in 13 years. With an 8,000,000-bale store already in Government hands and a bumper 14,663,000-bale crop moving into the glutted market, farmers voted 13-to-1 for 1956 crop quotas to make the best of a poor bargain...
...Guilty Flee. In Jonesboro, Ark., Mrs. R. J. Barnhoft was arrested for drunkenness when she drove into a service station dragging a driverless pickup truck by the rear bumper of her car, and whispered darkly to the attendant: "I wish you'd check that guy behind me; I think he's drunk...
...admission, U.S. television is committed to the seemingly impossible task of pleasing everybody. Last week the industry came closer to the mark than usual, with a bumper assortment of parades, pageants, period pieces and political themes...
Measuring 15 ft. 9 in. bumper to bumper, the Goddess is the longest, roomiest (six passengers) mass-production model in France and, at 930,000 francs ($2,657), the costliest. But by week's end thousands of Frenchmen had plunked down cash deposits of $215 apiece, virtually bought out production for the next 27 months...
...question mark in the budget is the farm-support program. In August, estimates were that $2.2 billion would be needed for price support, some $1.1 billion less than fiscal 1955, but $1.1 billion higher than originally estimated last January. But with bumper crops and declining farm prices, no one thinks that even the revised estimates are high enough. Falling hog prices, for example, forced the Administration into an $85 million buying program a week...