Word: corn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those old reliables, the farmers. Last week the feed-grain bill, the first of President Kennedy's 16 emergency bills, was steered through House and Senate. House and Senate differences will be compromised this week, but the net promise is for an increase in price supports for corn (from $1.06 to $1.20) and grain sorghums for farmers who cut back their acreage from 20% (House version) to 30% (Senate version). In lieu of grain not grown, they would receive a combination of cash and payments in surplus grain...
Calcutta (Lawrence Welk and Orchestra; Dot). That old peddler of "Champagne Music"-better known in the trade as "sweet and moanin'," "holy chorus" or "sweet corn"-fields his first big hit single. With no lyrics or melody of any distinction, Welk's harpsichord-accordion arrangement has a slogging beat that apparently sets the jukebox crowd vibrating. The jocks have even taken to calling Bandsman Welk "Larry...
...liners, as when he calls Man-Tan "instant Mau Mau," and sometimes he lapses into corn, but mainly he tells stories with a sharp point. He says that white people often wonder how colored people, who have such low-paying jobs, can afford to own Cadillacs. Well, first there is that $500-a-year saving on the country club, another $1,500 a year on the Florida vacation-and so on into the driver's seat of a Cadillac...
...Congo situation worsened, the U.S. was grimly aware that present U.N. policies seemed to be promoting neither Western interests nor Congolese peace. But the U.S. has loyally done what it could, and obliged whenever its help was asked. Last week President Kennedy announced that the U.S. was rushing rice, corn, dried milk and other foodstuffs from U.S. surplus stocks to help feed 300,000 homeless Baluba tribesmen starving in remote Kasai province. Orders crackled from U.S. Air Force European headquarters in Wiesbaden, and an urgent airlift headed south. U.S. planes stopped at Nairobi, Salisbury and the Cameroun city of Garoua...
...Joint Chiefs of Staff last September, took a post with one of the U.S.'s largest book publishing houses. He will be vice chairman of the board of directors of Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc. But retiring Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, who has had mountains of surplus corn on his mind through his eight hectic years in office, elected to linger in familiar pastures. Last week he became a director of Corn Products Co., world's largest processor of that troublesome crop...