Word: corn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...month ago equally frankly and boldly Corn Exchange Bank Trust Co., Manhattan, gave the public a complete account of its assets, not only a balance sheet but a full list of the bonds and stocks it owned. In the terrific week ending March 4 when the deposits of the New York Clearing House banks fell off 7%, Corn Exchange deposits increased...
...Corn Products Refining...
...correspondents, Ralph Lovelady of Iowa and Tribuno of New York, have touched on a potent subject in your Feb. 20 issue. They, however, neglected to mention that 20 years ago much of the power of the country was furnished by animals called horses: that agriculture furnished the fuel called corn, oats and hay to run these horses: that man invented automobiles, trucks and tractors. Exit horses and exit also an important part of agriculture's market...
...from agricultural products grown in the U. S. This would return a part of the lost market mentioned above, would solve the irritating surplus problems of the fruit growers of Florida and California, the cotton and rice growers of the South the wheat growers of the Northwest and the corn growers of the Central States...
Iowa State College estimates that by tincturing the nation's gasoline with 10% of alcohol made from surplus crops, an annual outlet would be provided for 600,000,000 bu. of corn. Henry Agard Wallace of Iowa, next Secretary of Agriculture (see p. 12) is credited with having first commended to President-elect Roosevelt legislation requiring a gasoline-alcohol mixture. James Maurice Doran, Commissioner of Industrial Alcohol, has prepared a report on the project for Mr. Roosevelt...