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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barnbuster. In its next-to-final count, the Department of Agriculture estimated that this year's corn crop would reach 3,649,510,000 bushels-82 million more than was estimated a month ago, 320 million more than the first forecast this year. 12% more than the record crop of 1946. Improvements in other crops in dicated that this year's total farm production would also exceed the 1946 high by a barnbusting...
Stocked Up. Business inventories rose $800 million in September-more than a seasonal gain-to a record high of $53.3 billion, the Department of Commerce reported. But the Department still did not think inventories dangerously high...
Molasses in January. In the largest deal of its kind in history, Publicker Industries, Inc. contracted to buy the remaining 1948 crop of Cuban molasses-between 80 million and 100 million gallons. The supply, valued at more than $15 million at current prices, will help Publicker keep its position as the No. 1 producer of industrial alcohol. Said one company official: it will also eliminate "any possibility of an anti-freeze shortage this year...
...York Star's reviewer tried to do. He jeered: "Cheer up, all you young women with $80 million. Happiness can be yours, anyway...
...most prolific was Charles Hamilton, whose works (under a score of bylines) are discussed today with an "affection verging on reverence." In 30 years Hamilton turned out a total of 45 million words of popular school stories, and made the name of his most famous character, Billy Bunter, the fat schoolboy, an Empire byword. Today, far into his 70s, Hamilton is still going strong, and his schoolboy stories are even read in Braille...