Word: corn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...across the line in Tennessee. By the time he was ten, his pre-dawn routine included milking eight cows and helping feed the hogs and mules. The big breakfast that followed was easily worked off in a three-mile hike to school. Summers it was full time at chopping corn, suckering tobacco, pitching hay. By the time he was eleven he was plowing a mule to a double shovel, and the next year he was allowed now and then to drive the new tractor...
...farm, snaked it out by mules to his own sawmills, then ripped into the job of converting the land into dollars, fast and plentiful. He brought in eight tenant farmers-Joe does nicely with three farm hands-and urged them to plow the steep hillsides year after year, planting corn in any and all directions without regard for erosion. Sam Carver was no throwback; he was, if anything, more progressive than most farmers of his generation. But he one-cropped from the earth its precious skin of humus-filled soil and, when he had finished, left it packed with barren...
...this day and particularly for this food. Go with us through the further part of this night. Amen." The meal is hearty. A typical menu: fried chicken, pole beans with lots of shelled ones mixed among the snaps, whippoorwills (brown peas), okra (fixed in a "made-up" dish with corn-bread crumbs and meats, so as to remove the slickness), corn, sweet potatoes, candied pears, eggbread sticks, biscuits, cake and ice cream. Most of the food is produced on the farm-but the milk comes straight from the Lebanon dairy, a fact that would have shocked the farmers...
None of the abundant policemen have set to work on the corn and beans deal; instead, a new food scandal broke. Guatemala's established importers of flour charged that Minister of Economy Jorge Arenales had set up a quota system that virtually handed an import monopoly to a group of businessmen represented by his own former law partner. Arenales tried to defend his move as an encouragement for growing and milling wheat locally. But the press was unconvinced. Columnist José Alfredo Palmieri sighed: "Corn, beans, and now flour-the best profits are always made on hunger . . . Food speculation...
...last week in the sharpest break since May 1954. One big reason was an unofficial estimate by the Journal of Commerce that the cotton crop would exceed Government figures; this touched off a reaction which sent cotton plunging $10 a bale for the maximum permissible drop, followed by eggs, corn, soybeans and wheat...