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Across the rolling lands of Texas and Oklahoma, sweating harvesters drove their clanking combines in echelon, cutting wide swaths through the endless fields of golden wheat. As the winter wheat harvest hit its full stride last week, farmers were hard put to find a place for their bumper crop. In such railroad centers as Burkburnett, Tex., every available elevator was full to overflowing; shippers, caught by the shortage of railroad cars, were forced to dump the harvested grain in piles along the streets...
...schools and hospitals springing up everywhere; in the dust-streaked tractors clanking through the spring plowing. He read of it in the plans for a 6-billion-electron-volt atom-smasher at the University of California (see SCIENCE). He heard it in the farmer's talk of a bumper wheat crop-the fifth bumper crop in a miraculous...
Next morning he bounced out of bed for an early breakfast in Kearney. He hustled on to examine an irrigation project en route to Holdredge, addressed a businessmen's lunch, talked to a bumper crowd of 7,500 at the University of Nebraska's Coliseum...
...weather that had hit Britain in mid-February had been rather welcome. Said a toothless Suffolk fanner: "The crops were coming up too fast. The snow put 'em to sleep. Now, unless a May frost comes along to stab us in the back, there'll be a bumper." Sheep Raiser Ben Alderson of Kerry, Montgomeryshire, had a bumper already; one of his ewes had just produced five lambs, a circumstance considered remarkable enough to be recorded in the stately Times...
Outside the enormous, white-domed Angelus Temple in Los Angeles last week, dust-streaked cars from two dozen states stood bumper to bumper. Inside, thousands of men & women, mostly middleaged, were having a wonderful time praying, singing or just looking. The national membership of the late Aimee Semple McPherson's Foursquare Gospel Church was celebrating its 25th anniversary...