Word: bushell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Caught up with most of its commitments abroad, the Government's Commodity Credit Corp. curtailed its wheat-buying program. One result: the price of January wheat tumbled 5⅜? a bushel to $2.13½. (On the basis of other futures buying, it would be down to $1.92⅝ by May and $1.75 by July.) With some 4,300,000 cattle fattening in the nation's feed lots (the alltime high, in 1943: 4,445,000), livestock prices in Chicago dropped "to $22.75 a hundredweight, the lowest since meat was decontrolled...
Last week the judges picked Amy Kelsey's hard red wheat as the best shown by U.S. and Canadian farmers. Its kernels were tops in size, weight, uniformity and freedom from disease. At 66.5 Ibs. to the bushel the wheat was close to the alltime record of 67.7. For her wheat, Amy Kelsey got a loving cup, a small cash reward and a title: Wheat Queen of North America. She was the first woman to beat the men in 22 expositions, but that did not surprise her. Said she: "What...
...hall decided that he really meant: "Eisenhower for President." And when the General addressed a group of New York business leaders that evening, it was possible to say that he was acting like a candidate at last. Said he: "All your brains and wealth cannot produce a single bushel of corn without hands...
...Sabula (Iowa) Gazette was able to note that "Virtus Peterson of near Green Island called at the Gazette and would like to buy about half a bushel of rye seed." The Chenoa (Ill.) Clipper-Times announced that the second grade was enjoying the reading of Billy Whiskers at the Circus, which was brought to school by Bobby Ritter. The Cassville (Wis.) American reported: "Wilbur K. Buschbom, otherwise Billy, returned Tuesday morning from the Carolinas. He is a cowboy rider and does trick roping. A fascinating, if dangerous life? Young Billy says, 'It beats workin...
...belief that the stampede would slash future demands for feed, corn prices dropped 32? a bushel. Wheat was down also, along with oats. By week's end, the Dow-Jones commodity-futures index had fallen seven points, the biggest since 1933 when the index was started...