Word: cornes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Blessing in Abundance. Bitingly, he pointed to a decline in cotton, wheat, corn and rice prices since 1952, but noted that peanut prices have gone up slightly. "This administration has a fine record on peanuts," he laughed. But the farm price slide constitutes a "farm depression." From the past, Stevenson dragged out a familiar Democratic tactic: run against Herbert Hoover. The last time the Republicans succeeded in keeping "the stock market up and the farm market down," said Stevenson, "was the last time they were in office, with Hoover at the helm...
...Adlai, points the way to better days on the farm: 90% parity, more and easier credit, extension of production and marketing agreements, promotion of Eisenhower's soil bank, which Stevenson called "a good Democratic idea." To these proposals Stevenson added one of his own, pitched straight at his corn-and-hog-growing audience: special payments to hog growers to encourage early marketing and ease seasonal price fluctuations...
...conspicuous and vulnerable. While LIFE Photographer Robert W. Kelley was atop a jeep photographing the clash at Oliver Springs, five men, three of them carrying shotguns, advanced on him. Leaping to the ground to escape them, he broke his left leg. In the same melee, Nashville Tennessean Photographer Jack Corn had a shotgun shoved into his stomach and barely managed to hang onto his camera until guardsmen took him into protective custody. Two days later a 19-year-old prisoner-one of 15 mobsters arrested at Oliver Springs-sprang suddenly between two carbine-carrying guardsmen, knocked Corn down and slugged...
Today there are 60 residents at Koinonia-45 whites and 15 Negroes. The 440 acres have grown to 1,103, with cash crops of peanuts, corn, cotton, cattle, hogs, goats and poultry...
...knew the rocket was my job when you married me"), a crisis (the bomb sticks to the ship's hull), an addled scientist (Donald Wolfit), and a final clinch between Reporter Maxwell and craggy-browed Pilot Kieron Moore. After 85 harrowing minutes Satellite makes port, leaving the corn barrier sadly shattered...