Word: corn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corn Exchange Bank Trust Co., proud of statements which "anyone can understand," showed $30,900,000 in private securities, also $21,937,000 in bonds and mortgages owned...
...story is told that before the Civil War, a Negro slave won his freedom and that of his family by foretelling the season for heavy freshets which destroyed all cotton and corn crops along the river, by observing the way certain species of wasps known as dirt-doubers built their nests under the river banks in the early spring...
...Governor, who was expected to veto the Long plan if it were passed (TIME, Sept. 21). Then Governor Long went too far in his exhortations. He declared the Texas Legislature was being swayed by paid lobbyists, "blandished with wine, women and money, bought like a sack of corn, paid off like a slot machine...
Fine for Fleischmann. When last year the late Gangster Dominic Tarro was arrested for conspiracy to violate the Prohibition law in Springfield, Ill., Corn Products Refining Co. and Fleischmann Co. were indicted for having conspired to furnish him with materials for liquor-making. Gangster Tarro soon died by violence. Corn products did not contest the case, was fined $5,000 recently (TIME, July 20). Last week Fleischmann Co., an integral part of Standard Brands. Inc., was fined $3,000 after pleading nolo contendere...
Susan was the eldest daughter of a farm laborer whose lot had fallen on evil times. In England of the early igth Century, before the repeal of the Corn Laws, labor was cheap, food dear; the poor got poorer steadily. Susan's parents read the Bible but had never heard of birth control: their steadily increasing family were just so many Acts of God. Susan's mother died in childbed, her father came to a bad end in a wayside ditch. Susan and the rest of them went on the parish, but she and her sister Tamar soon...