Word: corn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very low prices. Parts of the spring-wheat states have harvested a poor crop. Generally speaking, however, the position of agriculture is better now than it has been in any year since 1920. Livestock raisers, dairymen and winter-wheat growers have earned good returns, and underlying conditions in the Corn Belt have improved...
Browning once wrote a poem concerning "a grammarian's funeral; a Browning is needed on the Burlington. An erudite Vice President inscribed a circular containing the words, " . . . a tremendous area in which "IS" produced two thirds of the oats and corn . . . ", and a meticulous traffic, manager neatly omitted the "IS" and inserted "ARE". The disputants consulted the University of Chicago, then Northwestern, then Harvard, Princeton and Yale. After the weighty decisions were received and considered, the matter was settled by the toss of a coin and IS was the result. Not even five great institutions of learning can convince...
...Meredith addressed the New York State Chamber of Commerce at its annual banquet. His cure for the farmers was no new bonanza - merely an old one, clearly outlined for action. He urged that a federal commission be authorized to fix and guarantee minimum prices on the wheat, corn, cotton, sugar crops and on the production of wool and butter. He suggested that his commission be composed of the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce and Labor, and four other members appointed by the President. Other farm relief plans have sought to take care of the crop surplus by government marketing...
...supper, corn or wheat bread at their choice, & milk or Coffee-au-lait, also at their choice, but no meat...
...breakfast, wheat or corn bread, at the choice of each particular, with butter, and milk, or Coffee-au-lait, at the choice of each, no meat...