Word: bushell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...potatoes. The U.S. housewife does not want them, dehydrators can't use them, foreign countries won't eat them (they want grain),* and distillers are ordering less & less of them. "We'll give potatoes to anybody who will pay the freight" cried Anderson, "[but] not one bushel has been ordered...
Potatoes à la Steamroller. Of some 25,000,000 bushels piled up so far, more than three-fourths were salvaged by distillers. At nominal cost Schenley bought 80% of southern California's 7,000,000-bushel surplus, hauled them to an old Army air field, dumped them on the runways, squashed them with rollers. The hot dry air absorbed most of the water out of them, cut the cost of freight to distilleries by thousands of dollars...
...would decide what material they want for a story far enough in advance to give a researcher time to look it up. As for writers who ask the impossible an hour before closing time (e. g., "How do you say 'rubber stamp' in Chinese?"), who want a bushel of research for a ten-line story, who fail to share editors' comments, inside tips, etc. with their researchers -they should be curbed...
Canada was almost certain to arrive within 10% of its 550 million bushel record of 1942. Turkey was harvesting 35 million bushels more grain than last year. France's North African Empire, last year the scene of food riots, was doing so well by now that it expected to send up to 20 million bushels of surplus wheat and barley to the home country. France herself looked forward to a 295 million bushel wheat harvest, which would reduce her import needs from 70 million bushels in 1946 to a mere 20 million in 1947. Greece, Spain and Portugal hoped...
Frank Anderson's decision to hold his wheat has nothing to do with that order against withholding wheat for "famine prices." As a matter of fact, he thought the $1.70-a-bushel ceiling under OPA was a mighty fair price...