Word: corn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Corn is regularly the biggest crop in the U. S. although wheat and cotton attain more prominence in the headlines through their political significance...
This year, corn prices have risen with the rest of the cereals; and the corn belt's main worry has been as to the size of the current crop. Preliminary estimates as of Oct. 1 by the Department of Agriculture indicate a crop this year of 2,459,000,000 bu., compared with an actual crop of 3,046,387,000 bu. in 1923. Whether the higher price per bushel will compensate the corn-belt for its fewer bushels this year, remains a difficult problem...
...retirement (let us hope not, for another thirty years) of De Wolf Hopper. Indeed if Hopper had not erected it to its "present perpendicular attitude" "Wang" would be already dead and happy in "innocuous desuetude." But Hopper gives the thing its, authority, as the Kentuckian said of the "corn" in the julep. When he is on (which happily is most of the time) whether to heap new polysyllabies on the head of his obtuse Semegambian followed, or to narrate before the curtain the tragic consequences of "The Wrong Flat", the audience laughs itself sick. When he is off, the play...
...season where their maximum tonnage is ordinarily hauled and, with good crops in prospect, should do rather well this autumn. Comparison of freight loadings this fall with the banner year of 1923 is, however, apt to be unfair and misleading. The exact crop situation is still undetermined, especially in corn and cotton, being still dependent upon the weather. It is mainly a question whether the farmer will do very well, or only fairly well. The real thrill in business just now is furnished by real estate. The Oct. 1 renting season comes on apace. Generally, rentals are falling over...
Salesmen consider that fall buying in the wheat and corn belt will be particularly good this year. But among others, bond salesmen are beginning to be interested too. The farmer has had a severe lesson in personal extravagance, and gambling in land and oil stocks. Some bond and mortgage houses predict that the farmer will purchase sound invest ment securities in unusual amounts during the coming months...