Word: bushelful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they got the last three dozen guests out by turning off the electric lights. Then they totted up the toll: 18 gallons of lobster Newburg, 450 hamburgers, eight turkeys, eight hams, a bushel of green salad, eight gallons of lavender-pink potato salad, six crocks of baked beans, eight gallons of sherbet, dozens of cases of bourbon, Scotch and gin, 120 bottles of champagne. Said Martha: "Everything came out even, except Clem Ryan." The evening had cost Millionaire Ryan something like...
...flurry of selling in the Chicago Board of Trade's grain pits last week, July wheat dropped about 4? to $1.97¾ a bu., lowest price in more than three years. At the start of this week it dropped another 10 cents a bushel. Chief reason: the Agriculture Department had raised its final estimate of the 1953 wheat crop to 1,132,500,000 bu., almost 100 million bu. higher than the estimate made a month earlier. This was more than enough to offset the week's more encouraging news, i.e., President Eisenhower's request that...
...special message from the Mother Church's board of directors set the keynote: "Painless progress can be made by he individual and by humanity as a hole." A bushel of recent cases of Christian Science healing were read to the gathering-including total recovery from poliomyelitis, abdominal cancer, rheumatic ever, dislocated hips diagnosed as beyond recovery and accident injuries pronounced tal. No membership figures are ever issued, but what figures there were showed the faith to be flourishing; 34 new branches were established...
...provide storage facilities, as it has for years. Storing wheat is especially attractive to farmers now that the spread between the market price of wheat and the Government-loan price is the greatest on record. The farmer could sell his wheat in Chicago last week for around $2.04 a bushel. But if he stored it, he could borrow $2.54 from the Government, pledging the grain as security. If prices do not rise, he can let the Government take his wheat. One hitch: grain is eligible for support only if it is stored in Government-approved places...
...farmer to build more storage capacity, so that he could have the grain on hand and ready to market if the price went up. Furthermore, the Government was ready to lend 80% of the cost of the new bins built by the farmer, and would pay him 13? a bushel for storing last years corn for another year...