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...nonsense Republican, Hobson has used his business experience to negotiate things like NAFTA protections for flat grass and broomcorn--farmed in his district--and lobby against the American Automobile Labeling Act for constituents who work at the local Honda factory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: OHIO | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...always been more than glad to do favors in a nice way," said Mother Clara Boyle last week as she reminisced about the family's beginnings. He and his twin brother Russell (now an Army colonel) were born in 1902 in Leavenworth, Kans., where their father was a broomcorn merchant. They were a devoutly lighthearted Irish Catholic family of five. The twins went to Cathedral School in Leavenworth, where a stern rule forbade the playing of mumblety peg on the front lawn. "Bill liked to have fun," said Clara Boyle, "but he always got by." One day Bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Boyle's Law | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

...Lindsay, Okla. (pop. 3,018), farmers' trucks lumbered into the streets last week with hundreds of bales of an odd-looking crop: a thin cornstalk that seemed in need of a haircut. It was broomcorn, the dry, tasteless straw from which 45 million brooms a year are made. As rapidly as the trucks drew up to the curb, buyers pulled test brushes out of the bales and began bidding. They made a clean sweep of the stocks, and sent the price up to an alltime average high of $400 a ton v. $255 last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Clean Sweep | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

...years ago, its forefathers appeared on the American continent, probably arriving in a shipment of broomcorn from southeastern Europe to a Canadian broom factory. After a few years of glutting themselves, they practically wiped out Canada's corn crop. Then a hearty band of pilgrims was tossed about, until they set foot in the U. S. Instinctively, they moved westward toward the promised land. The moth flies at the rate of 150 miles a season; the worm nibbles the corn, does the damage. During the last two years, they have been reported in Indiana and many another state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: One Bug | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...including: " Thresh " instead of "thrash"; "Brahma" instead of "Brahman" (Zebu cattle); " kafir " instead of " kaffir " or " kaffir corn "; " milo " instead of " milo maise "; " sorgo " instead of " cane sorghum"; "potato" for "Irish potato," "round potato," "white potato," " common potato "; " sweet potato" instead of "yam" for the plant Ipomoea Batatas; "purebred," "broomcorn," "butterfat" to be spellt as single words without hyphens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Spelling and Definition | 10/22/1923 | See Source »

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