Word: sackfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...held their onions off the market in hopes that last autumn's cloud-high prices would reach the stratosphere (TIME, Sept. 26). But when the prices started to drop, farmers hurriedly dumped their holdings. Under the avalanche, prices collapsed. From a high of $5.05 a 50-lb. sack last September, onions skidded to 44? last week, lowest price since trading began on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange...
Frank Burke, of Dudley, batting .324, holds down the keystone sack, and John Hall of Massachusetts Hall, batting .332, is the shortstop. Third baseman Lynch hits at a .363 clip...
Second base should provide one of the real pre-season battles for position. Both Tom Cavanaugh and Myles Huntington played around the keystone sack last year and ended up the season with identical batting averages, 200. Huntington has only been out for a week and is still bothered by hockey legs, while Cavanaugh seems to have picked up a bit more finesse in the pivot play...
...cities had been importing up to 5,000,000 bushels of potatoes from the spud-rich Canadian farmlands in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. The Canadian growers were gleefully doing their biggest export business in years. Even after U.S. Customs collected 37½? duty on every 100-lb. sack for the first million bushels of table potatoes and the first 2.5 million of seed potatoes and twice as much duty on all subsequent potatoes, the Canadian spuds were cheaper than the homegrown subsidized ones...
...time for all good men to roll out of the sack, grab their notebooks, and hurry to the Yard in search of the Fourth Course, the Fifth Course, or perhaps a whole new slate. The following suggestions--courses of general interest--are some of the brighter items among the spring Term offerings. The list is in no why exhaustive...