Word: corn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...health. We've had luck with the heifers and a couple of young ones brought $325 apiece last week at a sale. We're prepared for winter-we've opened the silo and it's filled with the whole stalk of corn, ear and all. There's plenty of hay in the barn...
...Southerners got some powerful opposition. It came from shaggy-browed Allan B. Kline, who succeeded the South's Edward A. O'Neal when he retired as president last year (TIME, Dec. 29). Farmer Kline last year raised $40,000 worth of hogs and hybrid corn on his Vinton (Iowa) farm; he also found time to sit on the board of Chicago's Federal Reserve Bank. He believes that if farmers are to stay free enterprisers, they should not rely too heavily on Government support...
...sparsely peopled as an English cathedral at evensong. A hundred-odd lights, suspended like enormous inverted flowers from the beamed ceiling, illuminated a small group of bored musicians, engineers and minor officials. A poker game was started, and Arthur Godfrey, who had been called in to cut some corn named I'm Going Back to Whur I Come From, "noodled," as he called it, on the studio organ. When word came that the ban was over, Columbia, undistracted by bigwigs and publicity gags, got to work on their first record half an hour before Victor...
...example, driving an automobile too much can cause a painful callus called "chauffeur's foot." Dr. Lewi keeps his own feet and leg muscles in shape by walking up & down from his fourth-floor office. He has never had any trouble with his feet, except for a corn back...
...show that it had the interest of small business at heart, the N.A.M. chose a small businessman, Wallace F. Bennett, as its next president. He succeeds Big Businessman Morris Sayre, president of Corn Products Refining Co. A friendly, easy-talking man of 50, Bennett began learning about business early. During high school and college he worked summers in his father's Salt Lake City paint and varnish company. He likes to quote his father's credo: "No transaction of any kind is any good unless both sides profit from...