Word: corn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...teau de Rambouillet, dinner with Foreign Minister Bidault, a visit to Versailles. One hot afternoon (95°), Evita slipped into Notre-Dame, listened to a brief sermon, prayed, then drove back to the Ritz for a bath. Always there were rich food and champagne and the tasteless corn-bread that is found cn most French tables. It was a polite way of emphasizing French need for Argentine wheat...
Second Guess. Good corn weather in July, said the Department of Agriculture, had caused it to increase its estimate of the corn crop to 2,770,930,000 bu., up 158 million bu. in two weeks, but still about 500 million bu. below last year's record harvest. But for those who hoped that a better corn crop meant lower meat prices the Department had words of caution: the corn was high in moisture content and low in feed value...
...aspects, as a link in inter-American unity, see it in its local character, as an immediately useful road. The road ends age-old isolation, makes it possible to get bananas to market, to exchange them for huaraches and cooking pots, to trade Honduran lumber for Salvadoran sugar and corn...
...Council of Economic Advisers, which sent its midyear report to Congress this week, thought so too. The change from fear of recession to fear of inflation "has been unduly stimulated by such events as the corn crop scare," it said, "and an exaggerated interpretation of the effects of the coal mine wage adjustment. Some persons have scoffed at the idea that businessmen could or would follow a stabilizing course. Yet the reaction among progressive business leaders [in the last six months] was such as to make new possibilities of orderly price corrections in a free economy through the voluntary action...
Whether all this meant that the U.S. would not get the drop in food and clothing prices which had been expected in the fall, there was some debate. Typical was the argument over meat. The Department of Agriculture feared that corn would be at least 200,000,000 bu. too short-and too expensive-to maintain meat production at present levels. On the other hand, the American Meat Institute saw "no drastic effect on meat supplies or prices." Nevertheless, top grade beef in Chicago rose to $30.50 a cwt., highest since last January. Not till all the crops were...