Word: corn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corn in the Cage. In the fact-&-figure heavy Journal of Commerce, Shafer's column sticks out like a shock of corn in a bank teller's cage. Its author, brother of Congressman Paul Shafer (R., Mich.), has worked on newspapers from San Francisco to Paris, but would rather live in his home town, Three Rivers, Mich. (pop. 6,710). Most of Chet's columns are as casual as any street-corner conversation: they concern a funeral, a backyard spat, an old gaffer's boyhood reminiscence, or plain cigar-store gossip. Sometimes he reports technological progress...
...people chopped up deserted houses and furniture for firewood, ate reed stalks until the planes began showering them with mixed (and heavy) blessings. Once, under an UNRRA truce, the Communists let 300,000 catties (200 tons) of millet and corn go into the city. Just as distribution was about to start, Nationalist airplanes arrived with more loaves and canned fishes, smashed several communal kitchens and sent grainbowls, chopsticks and people flying...
Spit V Image. But Hummon and Harris were undismayed. They sent a reassuring message to the Atlanta "interests" who had backed Old Gene and to the country "wool hat" boys, who had elected him. The message: Hummon was just like his pappy. He chewed corn pone, had Old Gene's cowlick, and stood foursquare for white supremacy and the white primary...
Canada's tenderest corn, her new realization of nationhood, was clumsily bumped by the deputies of the Council of Foreign Ministers. Currently meeting in London, the Big Four's men had given Canada ten days to submit her views in writing on the German and Austrian peace settlements. Canada, they said, could supplement them later with oral arguments...
...Quitman County, Miss., where the rich black earth grows tall corn and bumper crops, there lives a Brobdingnagian boy. He stands 7 ft. 7 in his socks, sleeps in a 9-ft. bed, and picks as much as 300 pounds of cotton a day. When he isn't farming, 19-year-old Max Edward Palmer, wearing a little toothbrush mustache, is a freshman at Walnut Consolidated High and plays forward on the basketball team. Last week, he scored all of Walnut's 24 points in the first half, against bewildered Friars Point High. Earlier in the week...