Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...costs of production per bushel or bale. The support price of corn, for example, is $1.25 a bushel, and the big producer can grow corn for less than 70? a bushel. Clearly, if the Government takes the stuff off his hands at $1.25, the efficient farmer can reap a bumper crop of money from growing corn that nobody needs...
...rides. "Basically there are only two rides: up and down, or around-but you've got to have them to make a living in this business," says Freedomland Vice President Art Moss. Freedomland's latest include a monorail roller coaster imported from Germany, a Space Whirl featuring bumper cars which can also whirl like dervishes at 100 r.p.m. But the park's most puzzling addition to its fun is no ride; it's a waxworks replica of the Last Supper...
Unemployment, although still a discomfort at 5.2%, has dropped from more than 7% in 1961. Retailing, oil and chemicals appear to be heading for bumper years. Steel's future gleams so brightly that Hamilton's Steel Co. of Canada launched a $118 million expansion program last week, and Dominion Foundries & Steel has announced a $20 million expansion. The outlook for farm machinery is "excellent, first-class," says George Vincent, president of Cockshutt Farm Equipment. Automakers expect a 24% production increase this year to a record 530,000 cars. "My crystal ball reads five years of real good times...
...send the auto industry off on a boom of its own. Of the $48.2 billion of consumer installment credit outstanding, fully $19.7 billion represents automobile paper. The splurge has shattered Detroit's belief that it could not expect to sell anywhere near 7,000,000 cars for two bumper-to-bumper years. On top of last year's sales of 6,900,000 cars, the industry so far this year is selling at an annual rate of almost 7,500,000, which would, if sustained, break the record...
...North Dakota red, white and blue billboards urge farmers to protect freedom by voting no. In Colorado bright yellow broadsides urge farmers to protect their incomes by voting yes. In every wheat-growing state in the union, wheat farmers are being assailed by posters, pamphlets, newspaper ads, broadcasts, bumper stickers and speeches, all intended to influence their votes in the May 21 national wheat referendum. Never in the history of U.S. agriculture has a crop referendum stirred such torrential efforts at persuasion. The wheat farmers will be voting on whether to accept or reject Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman...