Word: corn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...widespread fighting approximately 500 were injured. Next day police rounded up anti-Somozistas. Those who reached Panama were lucky; many of the rest were shipped off to Nicaragua's penal colony on Corn Island...
Weevils & Bulls. The Lomaxes followed The Boll Weevil Song ("Boll Weevil done et my cotton, done started in on my corn") from Texas to the Atlantic, recording a different version of the little bug at each stop. They went to Tennessee for the sad saga of Coal Creek mine disasters ("No more pay days at Coal Creek...
They discovered that the hot, dry Oklahoma climate produced corn with little moisture content, that they could therefore capture the all-important early market (elsewhere, popcorn must go through a long and expensive dehydration process...
...brought new markets : popcorn substituted for scarce candy, went over seas to lend a homey touch to military lite, was eaten in bars and cocktail lounges by a nation which was drinking with both hands. Result: unprocessed corn soared from the prewar price of $1.57 (for 100 Ibs.) to $3.86. From then on, Oklahoma farmers needed no more urging. Typical was 44-year-old Tom Earnest of Okfuskee County.' Tom Earnest had worked his way up from sharecropping "by trying things...
...which grows about 30% of the nation's popcorn, is first). There was only one catch: the Popcorn Processors Association, meeting in Chicago Nov. 30, has one main item on the agenda: finding new uses for this year's huge crop. *Among others once astonished by pop corn: Christopher Columbus, who found the Indians popping it and using it for nake laces...