Word: corn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they expected to submit to lie-detector tests twice a week. In Dallas, greying Mrs. Anna Myers patriotically quit feeding bread crumbs to an assortment of bluebirds who haunt her backyard. But the bluebirds turned up their beaks at birdseed and only pecked at the crumbled corn muffins she offered them later in the week. Most housewives were taking things easier, and the majority were complying in part-like Mrs. Eleanor Sorenson of Indianapolis, who decided to observe meatless Tuesday, but not eggless Thursday...
...primitive, white-kerneled corn carefully guarded against crossbreeding with white man's corn...
...converted five-story hotel, and Sarria, a group of 17 Quonset huts. A curly-haired Pole, 19, announced proudly that he was a tractorista, that he was ready to start work on one of the cooperative farm colonies organized by the Government in the fertile interior to grow corn, potatoes, beans, rice, coffee, tobacco. An Italian with a shy little wife and black-eyed little girl was to go to a privately owned hacienda in Carabobo. Another, a bank clerk in Italy, had a job as a hotel waiter. Said he: "You have to start somewhere...
...Angeles, before 90,000 people, U.C.L.A. smacked down corn-fed Iowa, supposedly the third toughest team in the Big Nine. The score...
...that it had lost the preceding fortnight. Some wholesale food prices, which had started to drop in keeping with the drop on the exchanges, also went up again. The rise continued as trading opened this week. As long as the Government insisted on enormous food exports, despite the bad corn crop, traders were sure grain prices would remain high or go higher...