Word: corn
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Assistant Managing Editor William J. White of the New York Daily News agreed with Knight that quality could be improved if "editors [would] show their displeasure over these timeworn cans of corn and insist that the fotogs get something new." But, he argued, if wire-service editors were to stop sending" every picture of Secretary Dulles leaving by plane for God knows where," editors would be the first to object...
...than in the Intelligentsia of New York. It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theatres, etc., that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands." ¶"I have just finished Faulkner's Sanctuary, and I think I have understood all the pornographic part, corn cob, etc ... I found myself also absorbed in the story as a whole, without exactly following the thread of it, which it would have taken me a second reading to disentangle . . . Like all these recent writers, the author is too lazy and self-indulgent, and throws off what comes...
...swept-up pieces, Averell Harriman will be standing by-but not idly. He has already made one foray into the Middle West, for a speech last month in Des Moines. (Harriman gave this critique of his Des Moines performance: "What they think about out there is ham and corn, and I was both hammy and corny.") Next fortnight he will fly to the Northwest for appearances in Seattle, Eugene and Portland, Ore., and Lewiston, Idaho. Early in December he will speak at the national convention of Young Democrats in Oklahoma City...
...farm problem is over-storage, not overproduction. Despite a huge surplus-disposal program, the U.S. Government still holds 6,327,000 bales (a year's supply) of cotton, 913,000,000 bushels (a year's crop) of wheat, 657,703,000 bushels (three months' supply) of corn, and hoards of butter, cheese, dried milk, barley, beans, flaxseed, sorghum, oats, rice, rye, soybeans, honey, peanuts, tobacco, wool, winter cover crops, linseed oil, olive oil, tung-nut oil and whey. Except for these market-depressing surpluses, the consumption of U.S. farm products in 1955 would be only 1% less...
Benson also had the tricky corn-hog ratio to consider. This ratio determines, in effect, whether a farmer can make more money by selling his corn or by feeding it to his hogs (it takes about 9 bu. of shelled corn to put 100 lbs. on a hog). When the price of corn is low in relation to that of hogs, it is more profitable to turn the corn into pork; that was the case through most of 1954, with the result that the 1954 fall pig crop was 16% bigger than in 1953, and the 1955 spring pig crop...