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...other hand, if the price rises to, say, $3 a bushel in six months' time, the farmer would not collect that extra 25?-a-bushel profit. But farmers are often willing to forgo the opportunity for additional profit in order to guarantee in advance what they consider to be a fair return...
People were asked to donate money in multiples of $2.20, the approximate price of a bushel of corn, but no one worried much about making the math come out even. Some farmers took their corn to grain elevators and asked the operators to forward the cash to Iowa Shares. One woman and her husband sent in $80 and her engagement ring. Iowa Shares kept the money but sent back the ring. In Dubuque, high schools sponsored a dance. Eric Sharp, 9, gave the $50 that his parents were going to spend for his Christmas presents...
...they say they are. When Felix wears bright flowered suspenders with checkered pants he looks like a fool. When Gertrude says that her family makes use of all 1000 ways to be dreary; when Felix says that in marrying him Gertrude would be hiding her light under a bushel, he being the bushel; and when Eugenia says she is a deserted baroness left with very little, there is nothing more or less to believe...
...seeing cast iron out there," Paisley says, nodding toward the tarmac. "You're seeing aluminum. You're not seeing eight-cylinder engines. You're seeing four and even two. You look at some of these drive trains and you can put them in a bushel basket - that's how small they are. That's an indication of the cars of the future...
Getting out of the truck, Glenney led Leach into a barn. The farmer pointed to a battered 1955 International Harvester tractor. "See this tractor," he said. "I bought that for $3,600 when corn was selling for $3 a bushel. Now this here new one," he said, indicating a bright green and yellow John Deere, "costs $30,000, and I bought that on $2 corn. That's what I mean by the squeeze." Leach was duly impressed. "I'm glad to get some of these things off my chest," Glenney said...