Word: bushelful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vote for Less? Everywhere, the farmers' reasons for voting yes were basically the same: a yes vote meant a support price of $2.20 a bushel with quotas; a no vote meant $1.20 without them. In Washington, Ind., where Daviess County farmers marked ballots in the stone courthouse, windburned Norman Lawyer (who has 136 acres of wheat) asked a basic question: "Why should any farmer vote to cut the wheat price support in half?" Said Tom Graham, who plants 600 acres of wheat on his 3,000-acre farm north of Washington: "If wheat price supports fell...
...belt, from the panhandle of Texas to the border of Manitoba, the harvest was moving relentlessly northward. Last week the combines roared out of Nebraska and into the golden, knee-high fields of South Dakota. Although some areas were hurt by drought, the yield was generally good. But every bushel that came tumbling out of a combine's spout added to a critical farm problem. U.S. wheat bins are bursting with the greatest glut in history. When all this year's crop is in, the total supply is expected to be 1.7 billion bushels, more than 50% above...
...least in part to the nation's preoccupation with the bulging waistline (see BUSINESS). In 1910, U.S. citizens used an average of 211 Ibs. of wheat flour apiece. In 1952, they used only 130 Ibs. So far this year, shipments abroad have fallen more than 100 million bushels below the same period of last year. Chief reasons: 1) shortages created by World War II have largely abated; 2) wheat-hungry nations do not have enough dollars to buy American wheat; and 3) the Government-supported price of U.S. wheat is about 40? a bushel above the world market price...
...Agriculture Department officials and farm leaders were predicting that more than two-thirds of the farmers will vote yes. Said Farmer Lynn Wallen of Nebraska's Red Willow County: "I can't see any reason why wheat farmers should ever vote for $1.20 and against $2.20 a bushel...
...TIME hid its decimal point under a bushel...