Word: bushel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus, in the next few weeks, potatoes which the Government will buy for about $1.10 a bushel will be "sold" back to the grower for fertilizer or feed for three-fifths of a cent a bushel. Just to make sure that no one then tries to sell them back to big-hearted Uncle Sam for another $1.10 a bushel, the Department of Agriculture will, appropriately, dye its abandoned spuds a deep blue...
This year he expected to do just about as well. "I'm going to sign up with the Government for 5,000 bushels of corn at $1.40 a bushel. But I won't touch it for a while. Then if I can get better than $1.40 from private dealers, I'll sell it to them, and simply return the Government's money. The nice thing is that there is no interest to pay either. If a better price doesn't come along, I can sell it to the Government at $1.40. You just...
...army's light, publicity-wise, seems to have been hidden under the bushel to which Christ alluded (Matthew...