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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...
Even more oddly, some large nuclei (e.g., uranium) weigh more than two-middle-sized nuclei containing between them an equal number of nucleons. It is as if a bushel basket of apples lost weight when the apples were put into two baskets...
Uranium fission works by dividing large "bushel basket" nuclei. When a uranium nucleus splits in two, forming two smaller nuclei such as krypton and barium, the weight of all fragments added together is less than that of the original uranium. The weight-loss turns into free energy...
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...