Word: corn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which was woven into a subtle effect on the airwaves, but has been thrown at you here in what comes dangerously close to dripping Hollywood sentimental corn...
...most dangerous corn I've ever listened to" emanates from Mrs. Henry Topping (TIME, April 10), who speaks over Radio Hsinking. Apparently an elderly U.S. widow, she tells of visits to Americans in Japanese prison camps, of their belief that there is no sense fighting the "delightful" Japanese. Grim: "She sounds like somebody making fun of your mother, and you resent...
...ingredient will still be missing in the WPB cocktail: bourbon. By far the most popular U.S. whiskey (70% of all sold in prewar years), bourbon is scarce now, will be still scarcer because it is made from corn, now in the shortest supply of all U.S. grains. WPB-and the War Food Administration-banned the use of corn for distilling during the holiday. But they assured distillers of an adequate supply of wheat and rye. Distillers expect to turn out about 25,000,000 gallons of 190-proof neutral spirits and whiskey, enough, with blending, to add a four-month...
...that it was his turn, there wasn't going to be any corn; into the waste basket with the themes and the programs. No corn; well maybe a little, wistful melancholy, all very civilized, all very Chekhovian, "This is the way the world ends. . ." He'd have another drink or two, a few reminiscences, but under control, and then out into the hot sunlight, pack his books and pull...
Administration hopes that Midwest farmers will sell enough corn from their 1944 crop to enable livestock raisers to secure adequate stocks of feed for the winter months...