Word: bushell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Freeman explained it, he was merely defending the Great Society against "aggressive, go-for-broke special interests." Specifically, he was battling for a new, cash-enriched farm bill whose most controversial provision was a 50?-per-bushel increase (to $1.25) in the special subsidy paid to farmers for high-grade domestically consumed wheat. The only snag was Freeman's notion that wheat processors should subsidize the increased subsidy by paying the entire 500 increase themselves...
...They already have to absorb the current 75? subsidy. The increase, added to the basic support price of $1.25, would guarantee farmers a $2.50-per-bushel price for wheat they grow under federal acreage allotments...
...either illiterate or poor. I've had a lot of jobs that sound folky--but I was just a kid on vacation. I drove a truck for a while, until somebody discovered that I didn't have a license. Once I picked apples for five cents a bushel and all I could eat; I was only five at the time and didn't know any better. I reached the heights though, the summer I worked as a packager in a supermarket, a loyal member of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butchers Workmen of North America--A.F. of L.C.I.O...
Still, all is not happy with the Royal Ballet. With all the brouhaha for Nureyev, some dancers feel ignored. Says one star dancer: "If Rudi doesn't push off eventually, I've got half a mind to take my candle out from under this bushel...
...Raymond Johnson, whose husband is a Revlon vice president, wore her gold, green and blue sequins on her eyelids; Maxine Leeb (who got married there last June) turned up in a bodice of bird breasts; Mrs. Huntington Hartford, a shy ex-model, all but hid her light under a bushel of ostrich feathers; and Senator (for a few days more) Kenneth Keating wore his well-known white-on-white hair...