Word: corn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prodded by Franklin Roosevelt, the Senate approved the request for authority to sell the surplus wheat. Not so the House, mindful of elections and the Corn Belt vote...
...plot is strictly for pancakes: American boy in Yankee Division learns that British aren't really cold and unemotional when they grin and bear it; war plus Diana Barrymore teach Robert Stack that there is something bigger than individual emotionalism. Yes, the plot is corn syrup, but it doesn't matter at all. It doesn't matter because, for the first time, we see fleets of Spitfires fighting German Messerschmidts; we see two thousand horse power bombers with three ton bombs tucked away in their bellies; we see a frightening, new version of "Hell's Angels." All this runs throughout...
Farm prices have stolen a backward march on Leon Henderson, have declined without waiting for a ceiling to be clamped on them. Wheat last week was down 15? a bushel from the 1942 high; corn, 5?; rye, 28/5 soybeans, 27?; cotton, 2?: a pound; eggs, 4? a dozen...
Actually the decline in major farm prices is just as much a result of Government action as the freeze in the cost of living. Wheat, corn, rye and cotton were all phony prices in the early part of the year, were supported by political loans at 85% of a zooming "parity" and the hope of bigger loans to come. When the Administration froze parity (by freezing other prices), and spread the word that it would not boost loans still higher, speculators ducked out of those commodities in which the Government is holding huge surpluses off the market...
Time's Nick. In De Witt County, ILL., Farmer Carle Walker insured his crops against damage by hail. Twenty minutes later a hailstorm destroyed his corn and soybeans...