Word: corn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cooking meals, canning corn...
...comedy of corn last week reached a new high of low farce...
...Tuesday 3,600,000 bushels of corn were sold on the Chicago Board of Trade -a new record for one day's business; two days later no corn at all was sold. (Tuesday was the deadline for a Government guarantee that any farmer who sold his corn at the present ceiling price would get any increase in price that occurred between then...
Grain traders estimated that during the whole 41-day lifetime of the Government guarantee, which was designed to bring more corn to market, only 35,000,000 bu. (less than 2% of a normal year's crop) were shaken out of the growers' corncribs. This was to be expected; the Government had fixed it that way by promising hog prices that made corn-in-the-hog worth $1.35-1.40 a bu. v. $1.07 a bu. (ceiling price) as grain...
What's Cooking at Oudjda? It was as American as corn. Captain Andre Baruch, announcer (once of NBC and CBS), opened with: "Well, let's see what's cooking at Oudjda." Oudjda (pronounced ooj-dah'), which is in Morocco, came in: "Greetings, gang! This is Sergeant Dick Weston, the old Musical Message Sender in Oudjda, getting ready to read those requests and deliver with the music." A pair of privates wanted a Bea Wain recording of God Bless the Child for some of their buddies "now in parts unknown." They got it. A sergeant requested Tommy...