Word: corn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week kindly, determined President Avila Camacho took supermannish steps to bring the cost of living and income into line. He ordered: 1) measures to increase production of corn and sugar; 2) another attempt to freeze basic food prices...
...More Corn, More Money. Most important of the decrees was the one aimed at increasing corn production. For Mexicans, corn is the staff of life-they eat it in tortillas, as cereal, and on the ear in season-and corn is critically short...
Removals. In Rosalia, Wash., H. C. Roberts, who had already got rid of a corn by cutting off his little toe, got rid of another by cutting off his other little toe. In St. Augustine, Fla., somebody finally got the nickels from a Florida East Coast Railway pay toilet by making off with the door...
...although if the war moves quickly off Italian soil, and if enough of her demobilized soldiers return to the farms, Italy could be 95% self-sufficient in food. Normally producing a surplus of fresh fruits and vegetables, Italy is dependent on imports for meat, eggs, coffee, oats, corn and wheat. Her wheat supply has in recent years been stepped up by the successful reclamation of the Pontine Marshes, but her estimated annual wheat supply of 7,000,000 tons is still less than 90% of her rock-bottom requirements...
...Saturday night the field had narrowed to five honey blondes, one chestnut blonde, one corn-tassel blonde, two brunettes, one redhead. They stalked back & forth across the stage in formal gowns, danced, sang and displayed in somber black bathing suits what used to win Miss America contests. Judging took so long that the master of ceremonies ran out of gags, took to reading comic strips aloud. Said Sergeant Silvagni's wife, a bathing-beauty expert: "I thought they'd be a bunch of dogs this time. But they're prettier than I expected. They...