Word: corne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miller's businesses (the Cummins Engine Co., which makes diesels, a bank, a starch and corn-syrup company, plus a 48% interest in a California chain of supermarkets) employ 7,500 people and gross nearly $300 million a year, but there is plenty of Christianity in the executive suite. Among numerous good works, he was for years sole angel of the Christian Century, still meets most of the magazine's deficit. Miller has also turned his home town of Columbus into something of a Christian Utopia, helps finance public school building, is contributing a new campus to nearby...
...mixture of skim-milk powder, soybean flour, corn oil minerals and vitamins, originally concocted by Mead Johnson & Co. for invalids who could not take solid food...
...private companies that have been attracted to the valley-all at rates well below most of the U.S. TVA serves such big, power-hungry customers as Reynolds Metals, Alcoa, Monsanto, National Carbide and Hooker Chemical. Since TVA began, a seven-state area that once struggled along on a corn-and-cotton economy has seen its per-capita income jump from 45% to 64% of the national average...
Iowa. Norman Arthur Erbe, 41, is, by local reckoning, "a good old Iowa stubborn conservative." As state attorney general he has become well known as a corn-belt Comstock through his war against pornographic magazines. A massive (6 ft. 1 in., 215 Ibs.) lawyer and an impressive speaker, Republican Erbe is the son of a Lutheran minister, a war hero (D.F.C., 35 combat missions over Europe as a B-17 pilot). He advocates a cut in property taxes, more state aid to schools (to be paid for out of the huge surplus), revival of the state highway program...
...probably harmless to humans, but at least three diseases-including psittacosis, or "parrot fever"-can be transmitted to humans from fowl; all three can be spread by feathers from infected birds. Dr. Lind found more than germs inside old hospital pillows. Items that turned up amid the feathers: stones, corn, glass, metal strips, nails, a broken thermometer, false teeth, wax crayons, a pencil, a chocolate bar, a chicken neck, hen manure, a dead sparrow, a rat skull and a whole mouse. Even if feathers prove to be poor disease carriers, concluded Lind dryly, "we should consider that the renovation...