Word: corn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miles away, at Independence, Mayor Roger T. Sermon was waiting for them at the summer White House, 219 North Delaware Avenue. The night's poker game was all set up. Cook Vietta Garr had the corn in the kettle and the steaks on the fire...
Moscow started the name-calling. Moscow was good & mad at Michael. In asking the Big Three to help set up a representative Rumanian Government in place of Premier Peter Groza's Communist-controlled Cabinet, Michael had stepped on a tender Kremlin corn...
...postwar farm. But agricultural wiseacres have warned that farming is no business for amateurs, G.I.s or otherwise. Lean, blond Peter Farrell Hudson, 36, medically discharged from the Army a year ago, disregarded such warnings. He settled in Nebraska's rolling North Platte valley, good land for wheat, corn and oats, dreamed of changing it into one mammoth, highly profitable truck garden. But Hudson had no luck when he tried to get a loan under the G.I. bill to start farming. Finally defeated by red tape, he went to work for the Union Pacific as a brakeman...
...spare time Hudson put his machine to work planting 42 acres of tomatoes, which he guaranteed to buy at a fixed minimum price. The rest of the acreage he planted in corn, cantaloupes, etc., which he promised to buy at market prices. He spent some $9,500 for shipping baskets, wrapping paper, etc. while he and his wife were doing some of the planting. Then Hudson started traveling up & down the valley, spreading his idea, hired a crew to run his planter. Three weeks ago he quit the U.P., got ready for the critical first harvest...
...prideful up-and-comers as the "rat, cockroach and bedbug eradicators," whose organization is known impressively as the American Society of Exterminating Engineers. Other engineers now include: sleep-engineer (bedding manufacturer), imagineer (idea-man), custodian-engineer (one who furnishes creative janitorial service), esthetic-engineer (an artist), pediatric-engineer (a corn-cutter), civilization-engineer (a scientist), odor-engineer (perfume manufacturer), and social-engineer (one who "appreciates that one important function of education is the release of the potential energies in human nature...