Word: corn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chemist's pride, in switching world commerce around by his inventions of synthetics for natural products, swelled last week when he read the news bulletin just published by the National Geographic Society. That bulletin was specific. From coal tar,* air-nitrogen, cotton, corn & wood, chemists have been making things from fertilizers to rayon cloth, from paint to pearls...
...Riordon Co. (Canadian pulp concern) that bondholders emerged after four years without loss. This extraordinary achievement took him to International Paper in 1924 as president. One of his first acts was to buy the Riordon Co., merge it with International Paper. His directorships, besides New England Power, include the Corn Exchange Bank, Missouri Pacific Railroad, American Surety Co., Manville Jenckes...
Last week this vice was vigorously corn-batted by a circular order to conductors on the Rumanian State Railways, authorizing them to collect a small fine from all non-smoking sniffers caught in smoking compartments...
Time and again he had the courage to change his mind and defy his party-notably in the cases of Catholic Emancipation and Free Trade. As a staunch Tory (the party which represented landed interests) he had opposed Free Trade, opposition to which was exemplified in the famous Corn Laws. But with the changing needs of a country fast deserting agrarianism for industrialism, Peel reconsidered. Suddenly in the summer of 1846 the crops failed, famine threatened. Peel declared for a Whig measure-repeal of the corn tariff-thus precipitating one of the bitterest battles of British politics. With devastating sarcasm...
...Miss Ramsay's hands a prosaic Corn Law becomes a matter of fiery drama, and the most eventful period of British parliamentary history becomes the most exciting; Her lucid analysis of the political situation sets the stage, her vivid incidental sketches of "Dis," Lord Pam, Victoria, people it. Impartial, she creates Peel with all his faults of temper, tactlessness and lack of humor, but sets him centre stage in all his grandeur as England's greatest Premier...