Word: corn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was a definition: "A Nordic is a Southern Democrat who takes a good stiff shot of 100 per cent American corn-and then votes for Hoover...
Nebraska's Cornhuskers (p. 44 of the current issue of Most Estimable TIME) are so labelled because as every sapient editor knows, students at University of Nebraska are recruited largely from the wide, smiling, pleasant areas of the Corn Belt, and because, as to football players, many a lad learned to throw forward passes after having thrown unerringly into wagon boxes hundreds of thousands of ears of white and yellow Nebraska corn...
...seen trading in eleven billion bushels of "cash" grain, amounting to 6,000,000 full freight cars. Here P. D. Armour, Joseph Leiter, James A. Patten and many another operator became famous. Here Arthur Cutten, prominent in Wall Street's late bull market, took the title of Corn King from J. Ogden Armour. Here "Old Hutch"-P. B. Hutchinson-ran the price of wheat from 89¾? a bushel to $2.00, then watched the market collapse to 60?. Present value of a Trade seat is $45,000. When the building opened it was $2,400. Even further back...
...James A. Patten, one of the men who did most to make that building famed. Operating on a large scale from 1890 to his retirement in 1910, Mr. Patten is credited with being the only man who ever established corners in all four of the major markets-wheat, corn, oats and cotton. Though prosecuted under the Sherman Law for acting "in restraint of trade" Mr. Patten always denied that he was a "speculator," maintaining that his ability to forecast grain prices resulted from his thorough knowledge of crop conditions...
...owned, until last week, the best steer in the U. S. Clarence called the steer Dick. When Dick was calved (July 27, 1927), Clarence paid his father, Fred Goecke of State Centre, Marshall County, Iowa, $55 for the gangling Hereford bull. Thereafter, every day Clarence fed Dick ground corn, cooked barley, oil meal, bran, molasses feed, clover hay. Clarence groomed Dick himself, made Dick's hair curly with a special comb, helped make him a steer...