Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...become unbearable. "There is only one commodity under God's high heaven which is free of tax at this time, and sells at reasonable prices, a commodity that took twelve years of scientific effort and experiment in studying the fine points of production. Gentlemen, 1 refer to CORN LIQUOR. And now, as a crowning infamy, our politicians want to repeal the 18th amendment and then place an enormous and confiscatory tax on liquor, thus bringing about our complete enslavement. "The time for action is here when our government attempts to step in and forbid the manufacture and sale, unless...
Agriculture, The Farm Board was flayed for "stabilizing wheat from $1.25 per bu. down to 30¢, corn from 75¢ per bu. down to 20¢, cotton from 15¢ per Ib. down to 5¢, wool from 20¢ per Ib. down to 7¢" at a public cost of $500,000,000. But Senator Barkley's only concrete suggestions were to lend the farmers more money like "other forms of industry and finance" and to "take the Government out of the dubious adventure of speculation in farm products...
...Rockefeller into their fold as a convert and a damaging loss to the opposition, Drys damned him for a turncoat. "Unfortunately for your conception and interpretation you live in a stupefying, benumbing atmosphere of New York,"* wrote one-time Congressional Dry-leader William David ("Earnest Willie") Upshaw from the corn liquor country of Georgia. "Dr. Butler is an unsafe mentor for a high class, unsophisticated Christian like...
...resolution by Missouri's Shannon to investigate "Government competition with private enterprise" in the form of sales of merchandise at Army posts and elsewhere; viewed as exhibits a pair of women's pink silk pyjamas purchased at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. and an array of gin, rum. corn and rye flavoring extracts bought at a Government store in Washington...
...through a jungle with a machete. . . . His companions sickened and faced starvation. In spite of the fact that his feet were rotting from the humidity he walked 18 miles until he found some Indians with whom he was able to barter cloth, fish hooks and soap for some beans, corn and mandioca root to feed his party...