Word: corn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prospect of improved crops abroad, the U. S. Government raised its 1948-49 grain export goal to a near-record 450 million bushels, 20% more than six weeks ago. Skidding grain prices did a quick turnabout, with wheat at one time rising as much as 3? a bushel, corn rising...
...worth the price. Though passenger traffic is off as much as 50% from its wartime peak, many streamliners are booked solid. In twelve months the Illinois Central Railroad's City of New Orleans grossed its $4,000,000 construction cost; with its sister streamliner, the Land 0' Corn, it had doubled Central's passenger revenues. The gleaming new Pullmans of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Co.'s Texas Special are always 90% booked, compared to 60% for those they replaced. Even on short hauls, streamliners gross up to 25% more than conventional trains...
...Hybrid Corn. Through all these preliminary maneuverings, the man who developed hybrid corn sat in his hotel room, holding court, conferring with his loyal campaign manager, C.B. ("Beany") Baldwin, an old associate from Department of Agriculture days. It was doubtful whether Wallace ever knew for sure just what was going on. It was even more doubtful if the delegates knew...
...pious member of the cult. Long lines of cars jammed the road in front of John Brown's farm. More than a thousand people crowded around the shrine. The master of the master cell had to call for police to keep them from trampling his cell-treated corn...
...corn is as high as an elephant...