Word: corn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drove to a Morelos seed-corn farm to learn about the war on corn pests...
...Corn-rich Iowa is also rich in flies. They rise in clouds from manure heaps, byproducts of feeding hogs and cattle. This spring Iowa will mount an offensive against its flies, aiming to make the state as flyless as the moon...
...Colonia's soil is the loamy terra roxa (red earth) that Brazilians prize most. After two years' full operation, the farms, for which the Government gives seeds and advice, burgeon with fat crops of rice, 15-ft. corn, sugar cane thick as a truck driver's wrist, beans planted among the corn to keep the ground rich and productive. Says Sayão: "They don't mind planting vegetables, but are horrified at the idea of eating them. 'Makes you sick,' they say." But they are catching on, and on better-balanced diets already...
Snorted the New York Times's critic Olin Downes: "This is a Hollywood concerto. . . . The melodies are ordinary and sentimental in character; the facility of the writing is matched by the mediocrity of the ideas." Quipped the New York Sun's Irving Kolodin: "More corn than gold...
...Flat Voice!" Before he even got on the air, the couple of months became seven. When he did, it was by a flounder. An unwary adman, carrying an Allen audition record to the president of a corn products company, took the costly economy of going by Manhattan subway. On the way. the portable record-player got banged up. All the sponsor could hear was Allen's rasp. "Get me that man with the flat voice!" he ordered...