Word: corn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nearly 130,000,000 pigs grunted on the country's farmlands, yet every city and every hamlet had already had days of little or no meat. Corn bulged high in the nation's cribs and elevators, yet some corn refineries had already curtailed operation for lack of grain...
Snapped Tom Dewey: "I would advocate the immediate execution of your pigs, which are competing with my cows for corn." He added, with a smile: "But I would advocate eating them, not plowing them under...
...Emergency Food Commission. Gist of the report: the nation must shift from a meat to a grain diet, must stretch its grain crops to the last ounce by feeding them directly to people instead of to livestock to be converted to meat. (The average hog takes seven pounds of corn to produce one pound of table pork...
...Sabata, owner of a general store in Dwight, Neb. (pop. 294) thought the recipient of his letter might like to know the price of eggs and such things. Meticulously he set them down: "Coffee, 29? a Ib.; sugar, 8? a Ib.; beans, 9? a Ib.; eggs, 32? a dozen; corn meal, 5 Ib. for 17?; overalls, $1.75 a pr." Added Storekeeper Sabata: "My family consists of four girls, ages 21, 19, 16 and one year. I wouldn't do my government much good for soldiers, having all girls, but I did my part in 1918. I was in France...
Paulette Goddard, in cerise bows and a drapy peasant costume, was putting in corn and chickens at her swimming-pooled New York State farm. She told a reporter about the chickens: "They're red . . . I gather eggs every day." She also has a strawberry patch, thinks that "everyone should take up farming; it's the right thing...