Word: corn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government-paid bonus of 30? above the ceiling for each bushel of wheat delivered by farmers before May 25. A similar bonus was offered for 50,000,000 bushels of corn...
...heaving surface of the ocean congealed to earth; vast uplands lifting slowly with no barrier but a barbed-wire fence to the terminal barrier of the Rocky Mountains. In good years, this vast food factory poured out some 800 million bu. of wheat, some 2,800 million bu. of corn, 1,200 million bu. of oats, 63 million hogs, 33 million beef cattle, 36 million sheep, 82 million lbs. of milk, 3,200 million lbs. of butterfat...
This week, as it would be for months to come, the mind of the world was on wheat -bread for the hungry, from the Rhine to the Yangtze. But in the great U.S. food factory, corn-and-hog farmers did not change over their fields to wheat production, nor did cattlemen plow up their rich pastures. Each in his individualistic way was tooled for his specialty and subject only to the weather and the vagaries of a controlled economy. Each knew that if he did his part, and if the other farmers of the world could once again do theirs...
...Kuester is a corn, oats and hog farmer, and has been for 42 years. These days, while the battle for food thunders loudest on the wheat sector, he fights on his own position in the line, confident in his farmer's knowledge that the battle must be fought on many fields, with many crops. The field that Gus Kuester and his slight, tough-fibered son Dale, 28, hold against hunger is 240 acres of fat, black Iowa earth. Their citadels are two farmhouses and their outworks-barns, farrowing sheds, chicken houses and consumptively coughing windmills...
Examples: the parity price for corn, 97? in September 1942, touched $1.06 a year later and is now at $1.15. The parity price of wheat rose from $1.34 to $1.58, cotton from 18.85^ to 22jf...