Word: corn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been making money. Their gross income in 1941 was $2,500. Living expenses for the year were held to $500. The rest of the income went back into the farm, and $359 was paid to FSA. War and the weather swelled the Walls' income. Good weather lifted the corn yield in 1942 to an average of 90 bu. an acre (during the drought year the yield was twelve bu. - which is no crop at all). The war demand for food pushed up prices for hogs, eggs and milk. In 1942 their gross income soared to $4,200. Despite these...
...Walls' first crop came in 1936, a year of drought and despair. Iowa was seared by sun and heat. The rivers dried up, the corn wilted, the oats burned into worthlessness. Wall sold the two brood sows for $30 to pay Doc Brinker's bill for delivering Joan, their first baby. Then he went on WPA to earn money for food and interest on the bank loan...
Barring disaster, his 42 acres of tall tasseling corn will be worth at least $2,500 in October. There is hay in the barn, and 46 hogs and eight milk cows. And Carolyne has a steady income from her flock of 140 laying hens, 200 pullets and 100 cockerels...
Such oratorical omelets, composed of Southern corn, overblown poetical allusions, rough waggery and incoherent rambling have seldom been presented in the halls of Congress since the days when John Randolph of Roanoke used to stride into the House, whip in hand, followed by a Negro boy with a flagon of porter, to administer a tongue-lashing to Henry Clay...
...watched from a hill the burning of Drvar and counted 80 German planes that bombed the surrounding cliffs. In the evening an old peasant a Serb of ancient make, hung a kettle on a chain above the wood fire lit on the earthen floor of his hut, cooked pura (corn gruel), and invited me and some 20 refugee women and children to dinner. There I saw a child, bayoneted through the right upper arm by the Germans, and listened to accounts of German atrocities...