Word: corn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, Secretary Morgenthau's Congressman, lank Hamilton Fish, lamented the sale, presumed that his constituent was selling because of the serious corn shortage in the East. In the Senate North Dakota's William Langer cried "If all dairy farmers follow Morgenthau's example there will not be any more milk." But in their barns, tired, aging U.S. dairymen dourly agreed that the Morgenthau sale was shrewdly timed.* They, too, are selling milk cows. Their reasons...
...Feed, outside the corn belt, is scarce and high-priced. With cheap corn being held back by corn-belt farmers to use in the more profitable fattening of hogs, dairymen must scramble for the diminishing stocks of oats and rye. Therefore feed prices have soared to $57 a ton (v. $48 a year ago), and eastern feed bins are almost empty...
...Lincoln, Neb., Governor Dwight Griswold began reckoning the cost of his bet with 27 other Governors that Nebraska would sell a bigger percentage of bonds. The payoff: a corn-fed hog to each. His problem: how to get around an OPA regulation that he must pay full ration points (about 810 red points-a 50-week supply) for each & every...
...malodorous, milky-looking sour liquid which sells for ten centavos (2?) a liter, is swished down by low-class Mexicans as a substitute for water, which in Mexico is scant and bad. Some scientists believe that pulque's yeast and vitamins offset the unbalanced diet of chili, corn and beans, act as a counterirritant to hot peppers. But that is the best that can be said for it. Its production is unsanitary. Its sale is in filthy, squalid pubs. Its consumption produces a stumbling goofiness after the second or third liter...
...Present U.S. Government policy is substantially what Brownlee advocated. U.S. margarine production has boomed to 54,047,000 Ib. this year, almost double the previous annual average. Margarine, made largely of vegetable oils (from cottonseed, peanuts', corn, palms, cocoanuts), has become an important sideline of leading U.S. meatpackers...