Word: corn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest single consumer of water is irrigation, which has spread from a few thousand western acres in 1850 to some 30 million acres, sprawled over such eastern and southern states as Delaware, Rhode Island, Mississippi. To grow a bushel of corn by irrigation requires about 10,000 gallons of water; to grow a ton of alfalfa hay, about 200,000 gallons. At present irrigation soaks up about 100 billion gallons of water daily, almost half the water withdrawn by the entire nation...
...House passed and sent to the Senate a bill to provide bread for needy Americans in disaster or high-unemployment areas. The Agriculture Department would be authorized to process surplus wheat into flour and surplus corn into meal for distribution to the states through the Health, Education and Welfare Department...
Philadelphia's Democratic Representative William Green sent up a long amendment that proposed, in a nutshell, to exclude peanuts from the list of "basic" farm commodities-wheat, corn, tobacco, rice, cotton-that would receive 90% parity. The Democratic leadership paid little attention to Green's move; similar amendments had been easily defeated in the past...
...unwrapped the bar, continued darkly: "As a matter of fact, it has not got very many peanuts in it. Look inside." He broke the bar in half, held the pieces aloft, and shouted in outraged tones: "It has peanuts all over the outside, but on the inside nothing but corn syrup." Poage's conclusion: the candy manufacturers, by thus fooling their customers, were making profits of some...
Small Voice. To most of the hard-headed businessmen who run the Congo government, the signs of a Negro awakening present not a danger but a challenge. "Once advance has begun, you cannot stop it, on any front," says Economist Henri Cornélis, Pétillon's deputy and almost certain successor. The Brussels Cabinet agrees, and the result is that the Congo government is getting ready to give the Congolese a small voice in the colony's affairs. Some time next year, if present plans are carried out, the literate Africans in the principal Congo cities...