Word: corn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long run and the long view, said Dewey, reconstruction was a straight business proposition and should not be left in the hands of "social planners who do not know a loom from a corn-husker." Said he, with an eye on his business-minded audience: "It is time we got business men into a business...
...family possessions to buy food on the black market, he replied: "How can one who judges others do any black marketing?" When his father sent extra food from Kyushu island, he turned it all over to his family. He and his wife subsisted, precariously, on thin soup and corn meal gruel. Their food rations went to their two young sons...
...Pasadena, a California Institute of Technology geneticist declared last week that atomic-bomb radiation does indeed affect heredity. Dr. Ernest G. Anderson displayed some misshapen ears of corn-second-generation descendants of corn seed that had been exposed to radioactivity in the Bikini bomb tests. Said he: the Bikini corn, which produced a large percentage of abnormal offspring, may be a forecast of tragedy to come among the descendants of Hiroshima survivors...
...movies. Many made a beeline for the American Royal Livestock Show, which ran concurrently with the F.F.A. convention. Others stuck to the convention agenda, listened to speeches by Secretary of Agriculture Clint Anderson and British Ambassador Lord Inverchapel, and frolicked at a big barn-warming party, where they shucked corn and sweatily swung their partners in old-fashioned square dances...
...became the royal domain of four shrewd Irishmen. In just one year (1874) each became a multimillionaire. Oscar Lewis, annalist of San Francisco and author of a good book (The Big Four) on the builders of the Central Pacific, has written a thoughtful history of the men who exploited Corn-stock's richest ore. He makes it clear that the West as a whole gained nothing from this strike but a prolonged fever and a legend...