Word: corn
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...conservation here, and the sparing of food supplies for Italy, France and England, is the only effective means that we have at this moment of fighting the common enemy. In treating as an enemy the man who has under his command this little fight of ours with wheat and corn and meat and sugar, the senators are in simple fact weakening our allies and helping the Germans. What will the people do and think about that? We believe that they will rally heartily to Mr. Hoover's support, and that the attack upon him will serve to strengthen his hands...
...town of Petersham, where the Forest is located. All the forestry work has been dropped and the laborers have been taken from the lumbering and will at once begin plowing all the tillable land that is owned in Petersham by the University. On this land nonperishable foodstuffs, such as corn, beans, grains and potatoes will be planted. This work is part of the state-wide movement which is being organized by the Massachusetts Committee of Public Safety to bring up the farm acreage of Massachusetts so as to help meet the coming food shortage caused...
...there will be wild times in the Cage Friday night. (Police of Tewksbury, Waban, Woburn, Natick and Methuen please take notice.) "Peanuts, pop-corn and chewing candy," which in the past has been but an idle shout, will become a toothsome reality...
...solution of the eternal problem of the choice of a vocation might be found for more men if the possibilities of South America were given more consideration. Argentine exports more corn than any other country and South America is the leading cattle raising region of the world. This vast agricultural territory is dependent mainly on foreign trade for its manufactures; and now that the war has interfered with Europe's monopoly of this market, an opportunity, much talked of but little appreciated, has been given to Americans to secure a foothold...
...England." A prize of $50 has also been awarded to Isaac Cleo Pratt, of Roseville, Ill., also of the second-year class of the Graduate School of Business Administration last year, for a thesis entitled "A Study of the Correlation of Prices in the Chicago and Peoria Corn Markets for the Use of an Illinois Grain Shipper...