Word: corn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...basis of conditions on Aug. 1, the Department of Agriculture predicted that the total yield would exceed 1942's alltime high by 3%. Most of the increase will come from record crops of wheat and corn. Wheat output is expected to reach 1,160,366,000 bushels, 28 million more than the July 15 estimate, some 37 million more than last year's record high. The Corn Belt looked forward to an even greater record: 3,496,820,000 bushels, almost 300 million better than the previous high...
...body was what remained of 35-year-old Leon McAtee who had been locked up in Holmes County jail four days before on suspicion of stealing a saddle from a white planter named Jeff Dodd. After Dodd had pleaded that he needed McAtee to help harvest his corn crop, the sheriff released him to Dodd on payment of $15.25 jail costs. Then Jeff Dodd, his son and some neighbors led Leon McAtee down to the pasture...
...biggest discovery, for which he received a medal in 1939 from the American College of Physicians: nicotinic acid (part of B-2 vitamin) cures pellagra, a common affliction among poor Southerners who live on fatback and corn pone...
...harvesting the biggest crop in its history. The wheat output was expected to reach 1,132,075,000 bushels, 42 million more than the July 1 estimate, some nine million more than last year's all-time high. Granted a good soaking rain in the corn belt within a fortnight, corn production would also break records; the Department of Agriculture's estimate last week was 3,487,976,000 bushels, some 250 million better than the previous high...
...Army, whose 600,000 Hungarian-based troops live off the land, requisitioned 4,000,000 tons of wheat, rye, barley, corn and oats during 1945. In a typical prewar year when crops were much more bountiful than now, Hungary's farms produced only 7,189,000 tons of these grains...