Word: cornelis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fair grounds a full 50 feet. Forced for the first time to take potluck instead of arrogantly demanding the choicest location, the Russians' exhibit stood glumly at the far end of the grounds, and attracted thousands fewer. Even those who came stared apathetically at the cans of "Khrushchev corn," the cream-colored Volga car with its white-walled tires so obviously painted, and the dresses and fabrics which Poland's women sniffed at as far below local standards...
When Tom Spies was a rawboned youngster in the cotton, corn and cattle country of northeast Texas' Red River valley, there was enough food (Tom grew to burly quarterback build), but the average farm diet was deadly monotonous. It consisted of the three Ms-meal, meat and molasses, the meal being corn meal and the meat fat back or side meat. A related fact-though no one at the time suspected the connection-was that every year the South had 400,000 new cases of pellagra (Italian for rough skin). The victims' feet and hands (sometimes neck...
...food elements, they got better. Dr. Spies proved, too, that there was no essential difference between the North's "alcoholic pellagra" and the South's "endemic pellagra." He did this first by feeding up Skid Row derelicts at the same time as he allowed them as much corn liquor as they could drink; their pellagra cleared, showing that it had been caused not by alcohol but by the absence of essential food factors. At Birmingham's big Hillman Hospital, Nutritionist Spies worked seemingly miraculous cures by diet alone...
...RECORD CORN SURPLUS will bulge Government granaries this fall, prove Agriculture Secretary Benson's contention that present high-fixed supports, instead of lower levels he wants, have not trimmed surplus and never will. Stockpile will soar from previous high of 992 million bu. last January to 1.3 billion bu., including 480 million bu. of new crop, 825 million of carryover...
...Patricia Neal has provided a sensitive study of what it is like to be in love with a hokum Yokum. And then the villain hits the top. He goes hog-wild, and so does Director Kazan. Instead of keeping the menace down to life size, the script permits its corn-fed psychopath to sphacelate through the U.S. social body like some malignant growth, until he actually threatens to take over the Federal Government. As the driving force of a fascist-tinged political movement. Lonesome Rhodes is promised a Cabinet post as Secretary for National Morale. But by this time...