Word: corn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...journey toward "their succulent destinies." The reason for Shulman's enthusiasm is that while in college he worked as a pea picker for the Green Giant Co. of Le Sueur, Minn., where the pea is king. Green Giant is the U.S.'s largest canner of peas and corn, with 22 processing plants in eight states and two in Canada. In the last decade, it has raised its sales from $46 million to more than $75 million, increased earnings to $2,300,000, expanded to 38 products. It is also moving into frozen foods and embarking on a program...
Founded in 1903 by Le Sueur merchants who wanted to stimulate the town's tired economy, the company started with a single product-corn-and did not add peas to its line until 1907. Cautiously, it added asparagus in 1939, waited another 19 years before putting beans on the market. Only recently has Green Giant hopped boldly into new products. "There is just so much market for canned peas and corn in this world," says President Lurton Eugene Felton, 63, "and we were so concentrated, we were vulnerable." So diversified has the company's line become that even...
...country, with her tinted sky, her varied contours, her fertile soil, our fields full of fine corn and vines and livestock, our industry, our gifts of initiative, adaptation and self-respect, make us, above all others, a race created for brilliant deeds...
...there is always something pretty about them. I paint the way I do because I am not fearful of breaking any art rules. I have always wanted to paint as great a picture as possible, and at the same time have it come as near as possible to pure corn-but have it just miss...
...males in a given locality have been sterilized, then most of the females will have no living offspring, and the cockroach population will plunge toward zero. The same unsporting trick, say the Beltsville scientists, should work on other insects that use sex perfumes, including bollworms, army worms and corn borers...