Word: corn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show off the recruits, Sunday-schoolish Hoofdstormer (Youth Movement chief) van Geelkerken last week planned a mass youth rally at Roermond. Friederic Schmidt, dictator of the Adolf Hitler Youth Schools, attended. But Roermond townspeople stayed away. Shops were locked up, streets deserted, blackout curtains drawn. While some 50 corn-haired Dutch children squirmed in embarrassment, Schmidt commented ruefully: "Apparently citizens of this town do not like to see us here." Echoed Van Geelkerken, peering at the blackout curtains: "It looks as if somebody died here...
...with the Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Home Economics, passed out hints for spreading it thin: can fruits in their own juices without adding water; put up without any sugar and sweeten later out of current sugar allowances; use honey to replace half the sugar called for, corn syrup for one-third...
...Bumbling Earl Godwin's sudden emergence as one of radio's high-priced newsmen is a triumph for corn. His reports from Washington for NBC have always sounded as if they were delivered from a cracker barrel near the stove in the general store. He used to end a local broadcast with a "God bless you one and all." Once, he omitted the tag line and received ten indignant letters from as many old ladies. Washington newsmen believe that it was Henry Ford himself who picked Godwin's raspy drawl to supplant William J. Cameron (TIME...
...stand-by crops have shared equally in the new records. Pork, beef and milk are far above the old peaks. Wheat, corn and oats are not far below their alltime highs, despite smaller acreage. New crops like soybeans, flaxseed, peanuts and canning vegetables have zoomed from nowhere to pass many of the old leaders. Cotton has sagged 39% below the 1926 peak. "A banner year," caroled the Department of Agriculture...
...farmers have turned gardeners and dairymen in droves. Over the whole countryside big & little gardens have sprouted up, brightly painted cow-barns have been built. Truck farms now total 3,730,000 acres, up 12% over last year, up 30% over the 1931-40 average. Production of sweet corn, green peas and tomatoes is at a new high. Georgia alone has some 30,000 new gardens this year...