Word: corn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anderson reminded traders that despite heavy demands from abroad, U.S. wheat and corn supplies are ample, that U.S. crop prospects are excellent. The Commodity Exchange Authority went further. At its request, grain exchanges at Chicago, Minneapolis and Kansas City raised margins on speculative trading (current minimums averaged only about 10%) to 25% of the contract price...
They were on their way to the Paraguayan Chaco, where Canadian and European Mennonites, in settlements now decades old, have made the swampy wilderness bear fat crops of cotton and kaffir corn. There the immigrants will have a chance to prove by the banks of the Paraguay what their co-religionists have proved by the banks of the Susquehanna, the Dnieper and Canada's Red River-that Menno Simons' followers are among the world's best farmers...
...fully as large as that of Tommy Handley, long Britain's No. 1 radio funnyman). There were two good reasons for Heart Throb's success: 1) he had won a wide following among British servicemen as a wartime overseas entertainer; 2) Britons love their own variety of corn, and Barker gives it to them thickly buttered with Briticisms. Last week's program, like all the others, reported the high & low life of a spavined spa called Sinking-in-the-Ooze. The chief inhabitants...
...loves to buy drinks for the boys, and they love to let him. He also treats himself-to whopping feasts (thick steaks of corn-fed beef, hot biscuits, baked and buttery potatoes, lots of black pepper and paprika). Six years ago he tried to reduce, got irritable ruptured an eardrum and his appendix, went back to gourmandizing, and has felt fine ever since. Saturday nights, after drinks, a steam bath, a rubdown and dinner at the Kansas City Club, he goes back to work: "so the rest of the staff can't say that the big fat bastard...
...portrait of her into fancy leg-art; a poet who sings like, and is played by, Kenny Baker; a straight man who writes songs and gets the girl. Typical comedy routine: a firemen's tug of war complicated by a banana peel and a sneeze. All this corn has a kind of innocence about it that is almost-but not quite-disarming enough. Jane Frazee, despite her waxworks role and surroundings, is human, likable and nice to look...