Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Commodities. Wheat touched 41⅞? in Chicago last week, making the 42? wheat tariff more than 100% protective. Cotton broke below 6? in Manhattan for the first time since late summer. Corn broke to 23⅝? lowest since 1897. Race for Richfield. Up a notch last week went the big bidding for possession of Richfield Oil Co. of California, an insolvent company deeply entrenched in the rich Pacific Coast gasoline market. The bidding has been between Harry Ford Sinclair's Consolidated Oil Corp. and Standard Oil Co. of California, with Henry Latham Doherty's Cities Service...
...James or Mount Royal Club with stocky, dapper Edward Wentworth Beatty of the C. P. R. or grave Sir Herbert Samuel Holt of the Royal Bank of Canada, both directors of his company. Summers he spends at Hudson Heights, raising fine Holsteins, experimenting with sturdy strains of corn...
...American Medical Association regards Candidate Brinkley as a dangerous rascal. Back in the days of headphones, rural radio listeners of Kansas and the entire Corn Belt listened attentively to the persuasive Brinkley voice over his station KFKB ("Kansas First, Kansas Best"). Although he has not been permitted to practice medicine in Kansas for the past two years, thousands have had their illnesses diagnosed over the air by Dr. Brinkley, who referred them to certain drug stores where his prescriptions were sold. He also conducted a rejuvenation clinic where he pretended to revive oldsters' potency by the injection of what...
...Liberty, Iowa (see p. II). Secret Service men lifted Mrs. Mollie Brown Carran, 73, aboard. "How are you, Herbert?" she asked proudly as they posed for photographers. She had been his first schoolteacher. She listened to a band of moppets singing "Iowa," saw the President accept a gift of corn. Sitting beside...
...cotton plantation in Oxford, Miss, whence he makes rare, grudging expeditions to literary Manhattan. He still flies occasionally, in an old plane that belongs to a friend. Few of his Oxford neighbors know that Faulkner writes. He is considered none too well off, easygoing, fond of corn liquor. But, says he: "Ah write when the spirit moves me, and the spirit moves me every day." He writes always in longhand, with pen & ink, in incredibly small script of which one sheet makes five or six printed pages. He plays jazz records while he writes; wrote Soldier...