Word: bumpers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week, calls for farm help resounded through the land. Agriculture Department experts maintained that the labor supply could take care of this year's bumper crops, but admitted acute farm-labor shortages...
More TNT or more food-more TNT or more nitrogenous fertilizers to make U.S. crops bumper? The answer to this tough wartime question seemed to be more TNT: Department of Agriculture scientists last week foresaw a 53% cut in nitrogenous fertilizers. Behind this possibility was the increased demand for nitrogen, source of both explosives and fertilizers. Though chemical plants now building will soon triple U.S. capacity to produce nitrogen from the air, TNT production is fast approaching 6,000 tons a day. But chemists and farmers have a partial substitute for fertilizer-nitrogen-fixing bacteria...
...Yard. But bewailing bad luck takes up much more space in the pinball dictionary. A streak of poor playing is described as "Gottlieb working overtime" or "Harry having his foot on the pedal." Even baseball contributed two terms: the "Merkle ball" which slides straight down with only one more bumper to light, and the "Owen ball" which the pinster cannot control. A "New man ball," on the other hand, is one that shoots arrowlike to "Harry's gulch," the demoniacal corner which traps the ball and sends it to the bottom without hitting any bumper. "Bound hands" is the general...
Though the University of Texas is out of the running, the Lone Star State, which raises bumper crops of footballers, has still another candidate for the Rose Bowl: Texas Agricultural & Mechanical College.Last week the Aggies, in trampling Rice 19-to-6 strung up their eighthvictory in a row, raised their season's scoring total to 253 points (to 23 for their opponents). Next week the Aggies meet Texas in the big game of the Southwest...
...more. In Washington, Alabama's Senator John Hollis Bankhead advised farmers to keep their cottonseed off the market until prices hit $60 a ton (last week's price: about $47, an 18-year high). Wheat farmers have withheld so much (about 40%) of this year's bumper 950,000,000 bushel crop that the conservative Bureau of Agricultural Economics last week turned tipster, predicted wheat would jump another icxf; a bushel within a few months. It now figures 1941 U.S. cash farm income at $10,500,000,000, 15% above last year and the highest since...