Word: corn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...North America were to adopt a policy of 'Let nature take its course,' as some individuals thoughtlessly advocate, it is possible that these would-be experts would find disposing of the 200 million surplus human beings even more perplexing than the disposition of America's current corn, cotton and wheat surpluses...
...last year's half-faced camp." His possessions were what he had made himself or carried on his back from civilization. If he had had a cow, he had butchered her that winter to save his family from starving. He could count on a small squash and corn crop, if the Indians did not burn his fields, but the abundant game in the forests did him little good; his tiny supply of gunpowder was hoarded for fighting...
...They call him "Irksome Dirksen." "the Wizard of Ooze," "the Liberace of the Senate," and "Oleaginous Ev." They claim that he was born with a golden thesaurus in his mouth, that he marinates his tonsils in honey. They say that he got his cornball ways from working for the Corn Products Refining Co. plant in Pekin. Ill., his home town, and that his felicity for hot air is a result of his stint as a World War I balloonist...
...political star. He announced for city finance commissioner in 1926 and won. Four years later, he decided to run against Peoria's incumbent Republican Congressman, William E. Hull. One key issue: the importation to the U.S. of blackstrap molasses, a vital question for Pekin's corn-processing and distillery businesses. Ev lost, but on the day after election he began campaigning for the 1932 primaries. He castigated Hull for voting for a bill that would have strengthened the enforcement of the Prohibition Amendment. In whisky-making places like Peoria and Pekin. Hull was finished, and Dirksen...
...library in the Manhattan exurb of South Salem, N.Y. (pop. 500) was ex-Vice President, ex-Progressive Party Presidential Candidate and now Gentleman Farmer Henry A. Wallace, 73, a well satisfied borrower from the old library. While furrowing away on his 115-acre farm (chickens, gladioli, hybrid corn) nearby, Wallace had asked the little, 9,500-book library to find him a rare edition of a 400-page treatise published in 1766 called Histoire Naturelle du Fraisier (Natural History of the Strawberry Plant). Sure enough, after shelling out $500 for a surety bond, the library got it from...