Word: corn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...country, already canning 50% more than usual (TIME, July 27), to can even more. In the cheese weeks (Aug. 17-29) the Department hopes to liquidate the stock of 165 million pounds of extra American cheddar. Probable best bets in the U.S. kitchen sweepstakes for late August: corn, lima beans, plums and prunes...
...boards. Other warning stations reported. The Jap was headed for Chungking, was only half an hour away. A black ball replaced the lantern on the warning poles, and Chungking's patient thousands trudged to the dugouts, where 25,000 A.R.P. workers distributed "air defense cakes" of wheat and corn flour...
...Corn cribs, set up on street corners in small Kansas towns, bulged with old phonograph records. Men in overalls, streaming through factory gates in Indianapolis, dropped records into barrels. Open-mouthed caricatures of Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito on Manhattan's Times Square made inviting receptacles to throw discs into. From Maine to California 1,500,000 members of the American Legion and the women's American Legion Auxiliary rang doorbells, telephoned, dashed about in cars and trucks. Out from attics, cellars, closets came dusty black records, bearing such nostalgic labels as Dardanella, Barney Google, Cohen on the Telephone...
Elfish, slow-smoldering Stephen Vincent Benét wrote the program's "letters to Hitler" for six representative Americans: a farmer (Raymond Massey-"We'll choke you with wheat and corn, Adolf, we'll drown you in York State milk"), a mother (Helen Hayes-"I do not say it is just or right to hate. I say we hate you for having caused this hate"), a businessman (Melvyn Douglas-"You can't do business with a man who doesn't know the meaning of a contract"), a laborer (James Cagney-"We're sending...
Sorrel Top. She is first seen in a Virginia mansion surrounded by pretty sisters and priceless antiques. The War between the States has just ended. A Yankee brute assaults America's sister, Palestine. America is forced to kill him with a two-foot corn knife. America flees other lady-chasing Yankees along a row of fruit trees. Later she flees lady-killing Fant Annable down a row of tobacco plants. Still later (because of the murdered rapist and to be near Fant) she flees to relatives in Mason County...