Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recently the bandy-legged little Mahatma has abandoned even goat's milk as too luxurious, subsisted on a mixture of parched Indian corn, California raisins and bird seed. Ordered by telegraph to release St. Gandhi, the British Governor of Yerovda jail in Poona, incredulous, delayed to act, demanded "written orders." When these came St. Gandhi, arrested in the dead of night last May, was released in the dead of night. In London the Opposition press raged against the Viceroy's jail delivery, declared that he would be in "an almost ludicrously humiliating position" if the Gandhites continued...
...factory, thought of making his home comfortable for migrating birds. He had become interested in animals when as a young man he helped support his family by hunting for market. In 1904 he planted a few live decoys in a small pond near his brick factory, scattered ears of corn. Eleven ducks and geese came, spent a few weeks, flew away. The next year 32 arrived. Four years later he caught a duck, banded it to see if he could find out how far it flew in its migrations. The tag was returned to him from Anderson, S. C. where...
...follow Bull Cutten. They arranged a demonstration for his arrival. Members of the Chicago Board of Trade last week gloomily observed that their seats now sell at $9,000 against a high of $62,000 in 1929; that the securities division averages only 6,600 shares a day, that corn occupies the main Pit, that Government-pegged May wheat sells 7? higher than in Winnipeg. Also last week, Board of Trade members heard with exasperation that at the University of Illinois Agricultural College Federal farm, Chairman Alexander Legge of the Federal Farm Board, repeating to 3,000 farmers...
...along a narrow road under the shadow "of towering, jungle-clad mountains near the Honduras border. Their job was to repair a telephone wire that somebody had cut during the night, their only thought was to finish the job and get back to barracks before lunch. Near a straggling corn patch they found the broken end of the wire drooping from a pole. Though this was the most dangerous district in Nicaragua, the Marines had had no serious trouble for months. The party did not bother to send out patrols. One private shinnied up the pole with a pair...
...Corn Sugar Ruling. Officials of the $126,000,000 Corn Products Refining Co. were jubilant last week. Secretary of Agriculture Hyde ruled that corn sugar may be used in foods without declaring it on the label. Corn Products Refining makes 400,000 Ib. of corn sugar per day, now plans to double its capacity, build a million-dollar plant. The company's trademarked products include: Argo starch; Mazola oil; Karo syrup; Linit starch; Cerelose white sugar; Kremel pudding powder...