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Barghoorn's studies have verified that Indian corn is a native to the New World, not to Asia as previously theorized. He has also applied paleontological research to evaluation of climatic change in North America as deduced from the record of prehistoric plant life...
...Massachusetts farmer pledged a bushel-and-a-half of corn toward the construction of Harvard Hall. Although an Indian scalped him before the actual donation, the building was completed in 1677. For the next century it housed the College's social center, library, museum, laboratory, dining hall, and the colonies' largest kitchen...
...Offered to give (since the law does not prohibit giving) Communist Albania $850,000 worth of wheat flour, corn, dried beans and vegetable oil to see the population (1,246,000) through the annual late-winter-early-spring food crisis. The offer was promptly denounced in Moscow as a hypocritical propaganda maneuver, if Received, from Colorado's new Democratic Governor (and former U.S. Senator) Edwin C. Johnson, Colorado's 1955 nonresident fishing license...
...Argentina signed with Czechoslovakia to trade $32 million in corn, hides and meat for a like amount in steel, machine tools and newsprint...
From frugal beginnings in 1855 as a state-chartered farmers' college, Pennsylvania State University has grown into the 6th largest (15,400 students) of the nation's 69 land-grant* colleges-with research achievements to match, e.g., in diesel engineering, low temperature studies, corn hybridization. Last week, with scarcely a backward look or a sigh of nostalgia, Penn State briskly marked its 100th year of growth with a day-long celebration...