Word: corn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vitamin A, or carotene, is found in bright yellow foods such as butter, eggs, apricots, corn, sweet potatoes, carrots...
...Chicago next day wheat, at a four-year high of $1.20 a bu., broke 3?, corn 2?. In Washington six Senators from the farm belt announced that a small group was trying "to control prices by indiscriminate and ruthless use of surpluses...
...soybean oils in Lend-Lease's fats-for-Britain program; 2) low cotton-crop estimates foreshadow a low production of cottonseed oils. As a cash crop soybeans this year will almost equal potatoes, surpass citrus fruits, surpass in fact any other crop except the big four, cotton, wheat, corn, tobacco...
Green Manure & Rabbits. Soybeans grow well anywhere corn and cotton grow, so the U.S. corn and cotton belts are the U.S. soybean belt (see map, p. 40). In crop rotation they fit neatly into the place of oats, making a four-year cycle of corn, soybeans, wheat, clover. They are an ideal catch crop where early seedings of other crops have failed and will grow in the 100 to 120 days between a late spring harvest and a fall planting. They can be planted any time from corn-planting time (about April 15 on) to midsummer, a great convenience...
Kansas City police hunted L. C. Barrow, one of the Southwest's notorious Barrow brothers (Clyde and Buck were killed by cops). Charge: stealing a dozen cans of caviar. . .Charles Ray, 50, corn-fed juvenile of the silent films, went broke in Hollywood. . .The Safe Deposit and Trust Co. of Baltimore, guardians of eight-year-old Christopher Smith Reynolds, son of Torchsinger Libby Holman and the late, tobacco-wealthy Zachary Smith Reynolds, declared it cost them $6,944.44 a month to maintain the boy. . . Harry K. Thaw, 70, wealthy playboy slayer of Architect Stanford White in 1906, turned...