Word: bushels
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...crew cut the grain, loaded it into their trucks, and hauled it to the elevator a few miles away. When a crack in the truck body let out a thin trickle of wheat Morrison blocked the leak and bent down to scoop up the spillage. "Worth almost $2 a bushel," he muttered. "I want...
...Obviously the building is on fire. But no. The price board on the west wall is the cause of all the commotion. May wheat has just jumped from $2.69 to $2.69¾ a bushel. Presently the noise dies to mere bedlam...
...sickly Author Caldwell went on writing ''novels, essays and poetry by the ream," until she became almost blind. Recently her husband, Marcus Reback, an immigration officer, carted out the last "bushel-buckets" of his wife's discarded, unpublished works and burned them in the incinerator of their beautiful Eggertsville, N.Y. home. In the conflagration, Author Caldwell estimates, were some 140 novels ("they didn't burn well...
...About 45? a bushel...
...About $2 a bushel," said the farmer, adding after a reflective pause, "I see your point; I'll take the suite...