Word: corn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dinner, cooking since 5 a. m.. was served at tables on the lawn. Smacking over it Governor Roosevelt told his host: "I've eaten a lot of meals since I left home but this is the best yet." Afterwards he was driven out to inspect barn, hog lot. corn crib, silo, tractor, threshing machine. "Mighty fine! Mighty fine!" the Governor repeated. "You know. I've lived on a farm for 50 years." Mrs. Roosevelt gamely climbed barbed-wire fences. At the thresher the entire party was deluged with chaff. Before Governor Roosevelt started back to Omaha. Farmer Sumnick...
...Republicans but we've got eleven votes for you in our family and we'd have two more if the youngsters were of voting age. At the price quoted when Hoover was inaugurated the 30,000 bu. of corn I'm now harvesting would be worth $28,500 in Omaha. But instead it's worth only $8,100, a clear drop of $20,400. And my 350 hogs at the price when Hoover became President would be worth $4,120, but at this year's prices would bring only $1,015. The drop in my corn and hogs totals...
...Virginia, now publisher of Southern Farm Magazine and proprietor of a 2.400-acre estate near Leesburg, had just returned from Hyde Park. Through the National Committee he declared: "On my visit I found a herd of Guernsey cattle, dairy and horse barns, poultry houses, a silo filled with corn ensilage, farm horses, hogs and over 600 laying hens. The fields were in corn, alfalfa and pasture. There's no pseudo silo and sunken garden. These are on an adjacent place owned by the family of the late J. R. Roosevelt, a kinsman...
National Home Monthly differs from its predecessor in name only. The magazine continues to carry more than 50 pages of fiction, editorials on Canadian problems, pointers on how to care for the baby, how to make tomato aspic, corn meal pancakes, dress patterns. U. S. readers would appraise it as a countrified Delineator...
...each of 3,000 commodities (steel, cement, wheat, corn, cotton, etc. etc.) there will be a chart to show the amount of energy expended each year in production, the number of men employed, working hours, volume produced and flow of goods. By last week about 150 charts were completed and the Technocrats permitted themselves a first bit of publicity...