Word: bushell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Board would give no specific answer. It belligerently maintained a broad right to sell as much as the market would absorb without a major price decline, despite the fact that it would lose 30^ at current prices on each & every bushel thus sold. To the pleadings of Senator Watson that all wheat be withheld from sale, greying, strong-jawed James Clifton Stone, the Board's harassed chairman, turned a deaf ear. The Board, he said, would follow its selling policy regardless of political clamor...
...What decimal part of 2 bushels, 3 pecks and 4 quarts is 1 bushel, 3 pecks, 1 quart and 1 pint...
...long, 5 ft. wide and 3 ft. 7 in. deep?how many bushels of wheat will it contain, allowing 2,150 cubic in. to the bushel...
...Gigant, the largest farm on earth, so badly run that Correspondent Knickerbocker estimates a loss in "real dollars, not paper rubles" to the Soviet Government of $750,000 last year. . . . Verbhid or "Camel" where it costs only 67¢ to produce a bushel of grain as against 87¢ at Gigant...
...Adel, Iowa, Mrs. Samantha Burns died in the Dallas County Home where she had peeled a bushel and a half of potatoes daily for 35 years, equivalent to 32 car-load...