Word: bumper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many citizens felt that the United Nations Charter was no better than the old Geneva League covenant. They gloomily foresaw what has since come to pass--the virtual asphyxiation of the U.N. Early in 1947, most of the bumper crop of post San Francisco "unite-or-die" groups got together and formed the United World Federalists. Clarence Streit, the godfather of U.W.F., isn't in the organization. His own Federal Union Inc. wants the Atlantic democracies to federate first, while the U.W.F. is asking for a full-blown world constitution. In fact, the Federalists plan to hold a conclave...
Glut. Brannan could have found cogent reasons just by glancing at his department's statistics. There was more grain than the U.S. could eat, store or ship abroad. The Government had already taken a fourth of the bumper wheat crop off the market, by loans and purchases under its support plan. It expected to have to do the same with as much as 600 million bushels of corn-more than is normally sold commercially in a year. But with most storage space filled, a huge amount of "free grain" not encompassed by the support program had been thrown...
...grain would soon be exhausted, and that grain prices would then hold steady. But that was only a hope. The supply of free wheat alone on Jan. 1 was 514 million bushels-more than the U.S. normally eats in a year. Barring drought, the U.S. would probably have another bumper wheat crop, which could run the carryover to 600 million bushels in 1950. And Argentina and Australia already had so much wheat that they were cutting export prices...
...rolled back to the player; accumulating free games was a matter of luck. But the new machines incorporate a pair of mechanical devices which have taken pinball out of the shoot-and-pray classification and given the player a show for his money. One of these is the "live" bumper, essentially an electromagnet surrounding a spring; when touched by a ball it promptly squats down and sends the ball hurtling around the board. The other is the flipper, a little plastic arm controlled by buttons on the flanks of the machine, with which the player can achieve considerable control...
...economy, Dr. Nourse predicted that neither the drop in employment nor the decline in food prices would develop into a trend (see BUSINESS). An enormous total of 57,500,000 people was at work. The decline in food prices, he added, was a reflection of last year's bumper crops rather than an indication of a slipping economy...