Word: corn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fast-multiplying "old American hillbilly type will send out his children to fill the vacancies in the ... Mississippi Valley and the corn belt, and eventually into New England itself." He "may not get as often into Who's Who but he certainly contributes more than his share to the Army and to those groups of Americans who accept 'American' value systems without question...
...time to time for real fighters like Billy Conn and Joe Louis, who appeared on the first show. Mutual hopes to induce someone like sports-loving Gillette Safety Razor Co. to sponsor the show. Of his new venture, Red Dolan says: "It may be loused up with a little corn, but I don't think every apple-knocker in the country will be able to tip the plot after one installment...
...Henderson's civilians will be the immediate losers. It will take over 4,000,000 tons of steel to build 10,000,000 tons of new capacity. (Henderson: "It takes corn to grow corn.") This means extra curtailment of civilian supplies...
Married. Charles Ray, oldtime corn-fed cinema juvenile; and Yvonne Guerin; he for the second time; in Hollywood...
...being skinned alive: pulling apart stuck-together pieces of adhesive tape was the solution. Beheading acoustics were attained by slicing cantaloupes with a cleaver. Fingers were scissored off by substituting pencils for fingers. Dropping a raw egg on a plate simulated perfectly the blup of an eye-gouging. Flowing corn syrup furnished the voop-vulp of freely flowing blood. When a mechanical giant pulled a wretch's arm off, the leg of a cold storage chicken was pulled off beside the mike...