Word: corn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Golden Corn. In Halifax, Nova Scotia, an R.C.A.F. flier complained of corns, was examined by a medical officer who found $2,000 cached in the sole of his boot...
John S. Sumner, mild-mannered successor to the late, rabid Anthony Corn-stock as secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, blew off a bit of steam after reading D. H. Lawrence's The First Lady Chatterley* (TIME, March 27). He discovered "obscene" passages on 92 pages of the book, prodded police to seize the 398 copies in its publisher's stockroom. Said Dial Press Publisher George W. Joel: Not one of "approximately sixty reviews . . . mentioned any obscenity. As a matter of fact, we consider it very tame...
...South, planting was the latest in a quarter-century. Vegetables that should be well up in April were not even planted. The snap-bean crop in Georgia will be 75% below normal. Watermelons will be scarce. A more important delay was in corn and cotton planting...
...This week, to assure war-plant supplies, WFA took a 60-day Government option on all corn in Midwestern counties...
...Said Mr. Lewis philosophically: "Money isn't everything. We've got money enough now to get anything we neEd, but we can't get any good corn meal...