Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wickard became a good farmer, won ten gold medals from the Farm Bureau for coaxing a yield of 100 bushels to the acre from his cornfields. He went in heavily for hogs, got into the ton-litter competition, won another half-dozen medals. In five years he had bought another 100 acres abutting his ancestral 280 and had paid off a $5,000 mortgage. In 1926 he became the second Carroll County farmer to be singled out for the Prairie Farmer's widely recognized distinction of "Master Farmer...
...became County President of the Farm Bureau, helped organize a farmers' cooperative, which he headed...
...delighted surprise of many an oldtimer, Jax has so far done its job, in the midst of the confusion of organization, with an astounding safety record: one training death in 60,000 flying hours. A great joke to cadets a few weeks ago was the scuttlebutt (rumor) that the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, basing its judgment on the law of averages, had stocked the station with a large surplus of caskets which were overstuffing a remote building...
...Roosevelt's Johnson was still leading. But his margin was so fabulously small-77 out of a total of 566,551 votes counted-that it could be considered virtually a dead heat. Although Texas law considers a plurality of one vote sufficient in a special election, the Election Bureau took it for granted that a recount would be demanded, that it might be weeks before Texas knew the winner...
...encouraged research and experiment in the use of alternative processes for the production of aluminum from low-grade bauxite, or other sources such as alunite. In fact, it discouraged them. A report recommending alunite as an aluminum source was prepared by the Bureau of Mines more than six weeks ago. OPM has not yet acted...