Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ideas. One of them paid off. It was a fleet of baby flattops to extend U.S. air power across the Atlantic. As much as anything, his carriers broke the back of the U-boat campaign. Another Kaiser scheme was a fleet of 500 enormous cargo planes to broad-jump over the subs...
...gardens of the Far East, the cost of producing tea increased more than 100%. The greatest jump was in labor, the biggest cost factor. (It takes a lot of picking and sorting to make a pound, since only the three end leaves on every branch-the Pekoe leaves-are picked.) On top of that, India slapped on an export tax of 7¾? a lb., Ceylon, 12?. When the free market was restored in tea last January, the world found that demand was 25% greater than supply...
Army, Navy, and Brown will join the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League next season to jump the total number of competitors to ten, it has been announced by the Eastern College Athletic Conference...
Captured the N.C.A.A. broad-jump title, with a leap...
Weather Worries. Prices for corn futures broke all records on the 99-year-old Chicago Board of Trade. They reached $2.00¾ for July corn; the previous high was $1.99⅛, set in 1919. The jump was caused by a forecast of subnormal temperatures for the corn states, already suffering from a cold, wet spring that delayed planting. The Department of Agriculture, calmer than corn speculators, still expects a big corn crop, exceeding three billion bushels...