Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night the sky over ten thousand villages glows red and gold with the glare cast by countless primitive blast furnaces of mud brick. In the fields lanterns as numerous as fireflies cast a softer light over "shock troops" fighting "night battles" to bring in bumper crops of rice, sweet potatoes and cotton. By 6:30 in the morning the clean-swept streets of the teeming cities resound to the chanting of millions of voices as clerks, factory hands and bureaucrats, all clad in blue boiler suits, perform the mass calisthenics that herald the beginning of another ten-to twelve-hour...
Farm Policy: Despite a year of bumper crops and rising prices, farmers west of the Mississippi do not generally credit Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson with their prosperity-in fact, quite the contrary. The farm vote, traditionally Republican, remains a real Democratic hope (TIME, Oct. 20). The best Republican hope is that Midwestern farmers will vote according to the jingle in their pockets on election...
...Iowa there are seven Republican congressional incumbents, one Democratic. Iowa had a bumper corn crop this year, but farmers complain bitterly about being caught in a price-cost squeeze, and Democratic candidates work hard at blaming it on Benson. Republicans, in turn, have made labor corruption a major issue; e.g., in 1956 Democratic Governor Her'schel Loveless got $17,5°° in Teamsters' campaign contributions in violation of state law. Republicans have high hopes that Robert Waggoner, former administrative assistant to Iowa's popular G.O.P...
...shares changing hands rose by 30% during the week and the closing average price of 225 stocks hit $1.71, highest since the market reopened in 1949. Reasons: Premier Kishi's recent election victory, a cut in the central bank rate to 7.67%, and Japan's third consecutive bumper rice crop. ¶ On London's Threadneeue Street, where stocks have bounced back 30% since the low point last February, industrial prices rose to a new 1958 high every day in the week. The London Financial Times's index stood at 205.4, only 7.9 points below the alltime...
Ford is up to 6 in. longer, sports 29% more windshield area and a superenamel finish that needs no waxing for the car's lifetime. It has single taillights, parking lights in the front bumper. Ford will recommend regular instead of premium gas (saving: up to $1 a tankful). Beamed Sales Manager Marvin Cahn of Manhattan's Ralph Morgan Motors: "The new Fords won't be displayed till Oct. 17, but we have firm orders for 400-double last year...