Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coffee production long before the U. S. attempted the same thing with wheat and cotton. In dead storage are some 19,000,000 bags of Brazilian coffee for which no market exists. The U. S. agreed to start shipping wheat next month. Brazil would deliver its coffee to Bush Terminal in Brooklyn, N. Y. where it would be handled, graded and stored for the Farm Board which promised to sell none of it for at least a year. After that time the Board would market its coffee at the rate of 62,500 bags per month through "established channels...
...discrepancy between the coffee value and the wheat value Brazil made up by agreeing to pay Bush Terminal 225,000 bags of coffee (value at current prices: $2,524,000) for its services as commission merchant and storage...
...months ago a flyer named Trist, onetime Royal Australian Air Force pilot, was lost in the bush near Zenang, New Guinea, while flying in the service of New Guinea Airways. A searching party of 50 natives and a white man beat their way into the region but were forced back by hostile tribesmen. Last week two natives emerged from the bush with the story that Trist's airplane had crashed, that the pilot had struggled on foot to the nearest village, that the villagers had butchered him, eaten him at a feast...
Prosecutor of the 68 culprits is Victor E. La Rue, First Assistant U. S. Attorney. He is used to wholesale liquor cases. At Rockford, 111., he recently tried a batch of 43 'leggers, convicted 36. But the driving force behind the Federal battering ram against Chicago gangdom was softspoken, bush-haired U. S. District Attorney George Emmerson Q. Johnson, born and bred on an Iowa farm 56 years ago. When he was graduated from Lake Forest College of Law, he put a Q meaning nothing into his name to distinguish him from all other George E. Johnsons. He has practiced...
...Tune: "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush." Theme: doppel-rohrgcdeckt, the name of the organ-stop that produces a flute effect. Gedickef is meaningless, inserted to jingle. * Enlarged to book form: THE PIPE ORGAN PUMPER * Greenberg, New York, 70pp...