Word: corn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard-Yenching Institute was the donor of a $75,000 gift, and the Corn Products Refining Company gave $60,000 for research in physical chemistry. Erection of a new building to be used as a laboratory by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health was provided for by a gift of $150,000 from the Godfrey M. Hyams Trust. There were also three separate donations from national medical research groups for studies in infantile paralysis and cancer...
Bonus payments, ended in May, had lured 2,179,089 tons of wheat and 837,403 tons of corn from U.S. farms to U.S. elevators. The total-3,016,492 tons-represented more than half the U.S. grain commitments for the entire "emergency" period (Jan. 1-June 30). Said Agriculture Secretary Anderson...
...apparent that something akin to the corn-hog ratio extends through our whole economic life, and that when we talk prices we are really talking exchange values. Thus, although a ton of steel is selling at its highest peacetime price in two decades, it is exchanging for the smallest quantity of goods and services...
...Scheduled for broadcast on an NBC hookup, it was heard no farther than Asheville's auditori um. Just after the A.F. of L. president had been introduced, someone snipped circuit wires in a basement spot only 20 feet from where the Asheville Chamber of Commerce was serving corn likker to the press...
...winter, the family rose at 8, breakfasted heavily on beans, potatoes, greens and polenta (corn meal). A little after 10, when the frost was off the ground, Innocenzo started to work; he did not stop until dusk, when there was another meal of polenta, minestrone and watered wine. In the spring and summer, when the work was harder, there would be richer food: bread soaked in olive oil, sardines, pasta, greens, cheese and wine...