Word: corn
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Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Helen Hayes in The Corn Is Green...
...Kleberg is free of the current problem of cattlemen-the sky-high price of corn for feeding. He is one of the small percentage of U.S. cattlemen who use virtually no grain. He has the vast acreage to grass-feed his cattle the year round, and his 82,000 Santa Gertrudis cattle now give as much beef as the ranch once got from 125,000 of its English breeds. He is planning to increase his herds...
...sound effecters in radio's pioneer days had a terrible time trying to make a "noise like a frying egg. They tried everything, go the story goes, from crumpling Cellophane to popping corn. At last someone held a mike close to a sizzling skille-ful of frying eggs. That...
...eleven-year-old girls from Sarasota, Fla., one carrying an indigo snake, the other with a 6-ft. corn snake wrapped around her neck, appeared at the White House and asked to see the President. Gate guards held them at bay. The idea, said the girls, was to show the public that most snakes are not only harmless, but downright useful in killing rats and mice. ¶ Fed up with "high prices and no homes," 18 men, women & children sailed from Los Angeles in a 73-ft. tug to establish a colony on Chirote, a jungle isle 20 miles...
Spring even appeared to soften the heart of Argentine economic czar Miguel Miranda. Last week Miranda closed a deal with a U.S. Army mission for the sale of 28,110 tons of Argentine corn at the reasonable price of $104 a ton ($2.66 a bushel). He also announced that Argentina, if it could get oil and other transportation necessities, would be happy to sell all grains at the "world price." No one knew exactly what the "world price" was, but the U.S. hoped it would be less than the exorbitant $5.90 a bushel Argentina has been getting from hungry Europe...