Word: corn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thousands of landlubbers had to contend with nature, too; the eastern slope of the Rockies, usually as dry as a bowl of corn flakes during a milk strike, was wet down by torrential rains. Streets were flooded, cows marooned and rivers pushed over their banks in Colorado, Wyoming and Kansas. Almost everywhere else the weather was hot; beer and bathing-suit sales boomed and female sunbathers went to the office looking as though they had been parboiled. The sun was almost the undoing of people near Wilmington, Del., where a dead whale washed ashore and stank up the countryside...
...Olney, Md., James Gordon Mac-Arthur, II, son of Playwright Charles MacArthur, 53, and Actress Helen Hayes, 48, and brother of Ingénue Mary Mac-Arthur, 19, was catching up with the rest of the family. He was given a bit part in a strawhat production of The Corn Is Green. His father's prediction: "The little rascal is ham enough so that if he had only one line he'd throw in three...
...field of plants, Professor Paul C. Mangelsdorf has recently developed a custom-built corn for New England gardens and named it the Dwarf Harvard Hybrid. The corn, now on the market, is ideally suited to New England gardens and climate. Mangelsdorf's hybrid corns are proving revolutionary for the world's food supply...
...restless Lester Pfister, the revolution was a long time coming. A farm boy who quit school in the eighth grade to work in the cornfields at $30 a month, he has been inbreeding and crossbreeding corn since 1925. Neighbors, watching him tie paper bags over corn tassels and ear shoots to control fertilization, called him "Crazy Lester." To keep up his experiments he mortgaged everything he owned. When depression hit, he stalled off bankruptcy only by ducking meetings of his creditors. One day he went to an El Paso bank to plead for a last-ditch loan. Unwrapping a newspaper...
...five biggest U.S. producers of hybrid seed corn: De Kalb (Ill.) Agricultural Association Inc.; Pfister Associated Growers Inc. (which Pfister started and later left); Henry Wallace's Pioneer Hi-Bred Corn Co. of Grimes, Iowa; Edward J. Funk & Sons of Kentland, Ind.; Pfister Hybrid Corn...