Word: corn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...further footnote to the business of political reporting, Laguerre says that the French Communists, who were once very helpful, have clammed up since the reinstitution of the Corn-inform. Like any other political party, however, they play politics within their own organization and can thus be approached individually. The trick then, as it is in all political reporting, is to distinguish between the real news the politico has to offer and the propaganda he is trying to put across...
High points of the Games are the high points of the film: The amazing four-victory running of Fanny Blanyers-Koen of Holland, the high-speed excitement of ski jumpers and bobsledders, the gruelling ordeal of the marathon, the complete mastery of corn-fed American track and field stars. Periodic shots of the crowds at Wembly Stadium have been chosen with taste and occasional wit, and the overall effect is pleasantly spectacular. The parts of the narration handled by Ted Husing and Bill Stern are not up to the work of several English commentators; but they are at least competent...
Today, after false starts and heavy going, Rockefeller has four projects (besides the mechanization company) that can argue for themselves. On an 867-acre hilltop farm near Jacarezinho, a mixedcapital company has completed its 32nd cross of Brazilian seed corn, has harvested 32 tons of high-yielding hybrid, and sold the lot to Parana and São Paulo farmers. For the world's third largest corn producer, the possibilities of hybrid were scarcely less revolutionary than they had proved for Iowa...
More Normal Granaries. A third Rockefeller enterprise, formed with Cargill, Inc. of Minneapolis, is planning grain elevators for São Paulo and Parana. At harvest time in southern Brazil, wheat and corn take a back seat to coffee. Through poor storage, as much as 80% of the wheat crop has been lost to rats and rot. Lacking storage space, farmers often sell at panic prices. By renting space in the new company's elevators, farmers can hold off for better prices from middlemen, and Brazil will have to import less wheat. Another joint company has set up four...
Among the first few plays: The Corn Is Green, with Jane Cowl; The Barretts of Wimpale Street, with Basil Rathbone; On Borrowed Time, with Boris Karloff; Little Women, with Joan Caulfield...