Word: corn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Estimated U.S. meat production in 1943 (24 billion lb.) is the highest in history. The pork now flowing in will be good, because farmers have found it more profitable to fatten their hogs with corn than to sell the corn at low ceiling prices...
...finished on grain before going to market. The reason is that Midwestern feeders have been unable to pay Western cattlemen's high prices and still make a profit. Now that range grass is growing scarce, Western steers are stampeding, not to feeders who fatten steers into tasty corn-fed steaks, but directly to U.S. dining tables...
...September 1937, the Cargill Grain Co. of Illinois, a subsidiary of Cargill, Inc., virtually cornered the Chicago corn market, squeezed short sellers so tightly that the Chicago Board of Trade stepped in, told Cargill to sell corn holdings at an arbitrary price. Cargill refused to comply. In 1938, the Board of Trade expelled Cargill of Illinois from the Board for its price manipulations in the corner fight...
Governor Dwight Griswold of Nebraska, sure that his state could outsell all others in the new War Bond drive, wrote a put-up-or-shut-up letter to all other governors, wagered "one beautiful, big, corn-fed Nebraska hog." Governor Homer Adkins of Arkansas promptly threw into the kitty one white-faced Arkansas calf...
Cake-making Miss Smith has pleasantly seasoned her first novel-an old-fashioned family pudding of well-baked corn-with two simple and staple condiments: authentic recollections of childhood and a well-communicated respect for the endless valor of the poor...