Word: corn
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...barrier, but a Brazilian doctor says that his wife managed to spend $200 in a dress shop "on a total vocabulary of 'pink,' 'blue,' 'white,' 'my size' and 'how much.' " Other U.S. pluses, by consensus: ice cream, San Francisco, corn on the cob, roadside picnic spots, "houses that look like the ones in the movies," and the variety of the population-"white, yellow and every shade of black," an Italian visitor noted. Tops among minuses are rude customs officers. Others: slums, dismal trains, violence, plastic flowers, women in hair curlers...
...baby, and there's a new house "with a two-car garage, a screened back porch, two fireplaces, four bedrooms and a real red carpet in the living room. And I have my own farm, too, four acres of tobacco and six acres cleared for corn, soybeans and peanuts." That's not bad for a sharecropper's son, and Perry figures that it will take more than 20 wins to take care...
...Oldest One. Like its sponsors, Geritol ("Tired blood") and Serutan ("For regularity after 35"), the Amateur Hour is part of broadcasting's Medicare generation. The oldest show on the air, it has been producing the tall corn since 1934, before most Americans now living were born. The late Major Bowes launched it on radio, and his top aide, Ted Mack, brought it to television in 1948. It is still the top-rated show in its time slot (5:30 p.m., E.D.T.), pulling 12,700,000 viewers a week. Last week, in a Methuselan milestone, its "wheel of fortune" went...
...profits, to be sure, are marginal. But the new editor hopes they will grow along with circulation: "It could be 10,000-there are 10,000 families in the county." To supplement his income, he works the farm by himself, has already made $700 on such crops as corn and tobacco, and expects the figure to climb soon to $2,500 a year...
...until World War II cut off normal U.S. imports of fats and oil. From a crop of 193 million bu. in 1945, output rose to 843.7 million bu., worth nearly $2.5 billion last fall. Soybeans are the U.S.'s most valuable agricultural export, ranking ahead of wheat and corn...