Word: corn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...season against and for installment purchase of merchandise, Lawyer Morgan Joseph O'Brien of Manhattan, 74, father of smart Kenneth O'Brien* and eight other children, studied the selling credits of 34 industries and found them good risk. The result is the $31,000,000 American Rediscount Corn., which was to start business in Manhattan last week, after the method of the Federal Reserve banks. Lawyer O'Brien is chairman of the company's advisory committee; Comptroller Lawrence H. Hendricks of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is the president...
...United States already has absorbed Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, the Virgin Islands, Samana Bay in Santo Domingo Mole, Saint Nicholas in Haiti, Fonseca Bay and Corn Islands in Nicaragua and now, through an alliance with Panama, may acquire the Island of Manzanilla...
...husked 28 bushels of corn in 80 minutes. *He was imprisoned for conspiracy to violate the Prohibition law. *The President of the U. S. gets $100,000 yearly...
...meanest job on the farm, so I thought, was picking up potatoes, but I liked to husk corn. There were many other jobs supposed to be a boy's size, such as going after the cows up in the pasture, washing the buggy ( this was before the day of the automobile), sticking pumpkin seeds, pulling weeds in the garden...
...Kewanee, Ill., one Glenn Beall, farmer, turned 50 hogs into a field of corn that had been under water for a long time. The grain had sprouted, turned to mash, fermented; greedily the hogs guffed and snuzzled. Soon a warm paradise bloomed in their brutish hides. They ran in circles, tottering. They knocked each other down, made love. Seven fell into a creek and drowned. Thirteen, eating too much of the alcoholic seed, perished in agony. Sitting safely on a fence, Farmer Glenn Beall watched a scene not unlike the one a Greek saw when amorous swine on an island...