Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Then began the steady slow climb out of the depths. October closed with an average gain of 33% in all grain prices. December wheat went to about 61¢ per bu. adding $67,000,000 to the crop's value in less than four weeks. In the same period corn bounded up 10¢ per bu. with an increased value of $216,000,000. Oats ($40,000,000) and rye ($5.000,000) brought the total increase of grain values to $328,000,000 above what they were on Black Monday. The upswing was also felt, in cotton, with an increase...
...Upperville, Va., Reverend Everett Hinks was annoyed by neighbors' chickens eating the flowers in his garden. Chicken-owning neighbors of Mr. Hinks denied their fowl had committed the depredations. Mr. Hinks, ingenious, got many pieces of string, tied one end of each to a kernel of corn and the other end to a placard, left them in his flower garden. One day his astonished neighbors heard their chickens crowing lustily, found hanging from their beaks placards bearing the legend: "I Have Been in Reverend Hinks' Flower Garden...
...began to grow dark one of the airplanes spotted Weirman, clothed in the white uniform of a prison cook. The police surrounded the field, closed in. Policeman Joseph Campbell Jr. saw a foot sticking out of a shock of corn, ordered its owner out. Convict McGrath came out shooting and Policeman Campbell fell fatally wounded. An instant later his companions had avenged him and McGrath lay dying. Meanwhile, other policemen searched for Weirman. Finally they came upon him lying still on the ground. Desperado Weirman, seeing he could not escape, had put the muzzle of his riot...
...team is losing, citizens stop him on the street, tell him to wear a hat because his brains are dusty. When the directors held their meeting, he was at Dover Hall, his estate in Georgia, where he spends the winters hunting deer, ducks, or turkey, and tippling old corn whiskey with his friends. Though he grunted when he heard the news, Wilbert Robinson could not have been much startled. His mortal enemy, Stephen W. McKeever, chairman of the board of directors, has been urging his discharge for years. Another faction in the Club's ownership, composed of heirs...
...over the State Capitol of Nebraska," said Miss Osborne, "I'm a lot of mosaics. I'm Corn and Aviation and a lot of other things that were hard to pose...