Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the blighted harvest will hurt many farmers severely, it will also help to relieve a nagging national problem. Bumper crops in 1951-53 crammed Canadian grain elevators with unsold wheat. The poor 1954 crop will help reduce the huge surplus. And, since the same nasty weather that plagued Canada all summer also prevailed in Western Europe, prospects are that Canada will be able to boost its wheat exports to Europe this year...
When, on a 49-44 vote, the Schoeppel amendment was adopted, the nation had a policy of flexibility, and President Eisenhower had harvested a bumper legislative crop. With the farm-bloc diehards thus shaken, George Aiken moved in to score a clean sweep on other provisions of the bill. In fast succession, the Senate beat away the chaff of demands for 1) increasing price supports on soybeans and feed grains (oats, rye, barley, grain sorghums), 2) imposing cattle supports at a rigid 80% of parity, and 3) pegging dairy supports at 80% instead of the 75% set by Agriculture Secretary...
SUGAR GLUT in the world markets is knocking the props out from under wholesale prices. Bumper crops in Cuba and in other major producing areas sent prices down to 3.05? a pound (v. 1951's high of 8.12?), well under the 3.25? minimum set by the International Sugar Conference...
Comment (Mon. 8:30 p.m., NBC) transfers the radio-style commentator to television and gives its audience a bumper helping of experts. On its opening show, four pundits (NBC's Joseph C. Harsch, Bob Hecox and David Brinkley, and the New York Times's Arthur Krock) stepped up and spoke on subjects ranging from Indo-China to the Army-McCarthy hearings. Last week four more experts (NBC's Richard Harkness and Romney Wheeler, the Denver Post's Palmer Hoyt and the Manchester Guardian's Washington cor respondent Max Freedman) dealt more coherently with the single...
Short Tractor. The smallest truck trac tor on the market (96 in. from bumper to back of cab) is rolling off production lines at the White Motor Co. in Cleve land. By canting the 200 h.p. diesel engine 20° to the right, White engineers have saved more than a foot of space, which can be used for cargo. Thus the new tractor can haul a 35-ft. trailer and still keep within the 45-ft. overall limit set by most states. Price of the new tractor...