Word: fill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many places as much as half the wheat crop was being dumped on the ground for lack of storage bins and boxcars. Thus, when the Department of Agriculture, in a rush to fill its foreign commitments, raised its buying price on wheat by 13½? a bushel, wheat markets too went soaring...
People in Grand Tower had been sandbagging their inadequate levee since April. As the river rose they speeded up their work. While children helped their elders fill sandbags with toy shovels, and every able-bodied citizen lugged the bags to the levee, the river kept rising. Suddenly, everybody knew Grand Tower was going to have a "duck drownder." People stacked furniture in upper stories, took cattle and chickens to the high pasture near the cemetery, and waited "for her to blow." At dusk one night last week, she blew...
...cold air, after being scooped into the plane at 200-300 m.p.h., becomes unpleasantly dry as it warms up. It makes the passenger's eyes smart and aggravates his cold or sinus trouble. If he is a nervous type, he is repelled by all the trapped smells that fill the cabin...
...superintendent of schools is a genial Rotarian with a glad hand and a quick mind, who has run Kansas City's schools for the past seven years. He also heads the American Association of School Administrators. A preacher at heart, Episcopalian Herold Hunt likes to fill in for vacationing ministers (he always draws a big crowd), often preaches to his teachers, too ("Don't be a grouch, avoid the 'little God' complex"). But Kansas City teachers remember him with affection: he got more money for his teachers than any man before him, boosted teachers' maximum...
...rich Chicago and Ohio Valley areas, the Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroads carried the region's freight and passengers. In 1933 the Monon went into receivership. It all but stopped carrying passengers; they were a nuisance. It ran freight trains only when there was enough freight to fill them. Then the war brought an inescapable transfusion of freight traffic and a $12½ million surplus...