Word: corn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deal food-stamp plan. If Perkins' firing had not been a certainty before, it became definite last week when he made a pep talk to 1,700 BEW employes and one uninvited reporter (Virginia Pasley, of the Washington Times-Herald). Henry Wallace kept mum and tended the corn in his Washington victory garden. But Milo Perkins told the BEW workers that Mr. Wallace's attack on Jones was what "any red-blooded American" would do when he turned over a rock and saw "slimy things crawling" under...
...Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone; but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. John...
When the laws of supply & demand are permitted to operate, fluctuations in the corn-hog ratio keep the corn supply and number of hogs in automatic balance. Under the Agriculture Department-OPA rules, they have moved so far apart that only a major hog liquidation can restore any semblance of order. Thanks to the growing feed shortage, this liquidation is now beginning...
...market should prove a good thing for the U.S. In the midst of wartime food scarcities the U.S. should be using its feed grains first for poultry and dairy herds, then for beef cattle which eat grass as well as grain. A large hog population, eating vast quantities of corn, is a luxury the U.S. cannot afford in wartime...
There were some youngish soldiers & sailors who were there to hear Dinah Shore, on the same program, and who thought the Rhythm Boys leaned slightly toward the corn. But to many who had grown up with the syncopated ditty, Mississippi Mud seemed a solid, perdurable part of U.S. musical history...