Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corn, oats, barley and grain sorghums 90,000,000 tons...
...Merriman will speak first, to be followed by President Lowell. After the addresses. Ellery Sedgwick '32 and W. S. Warner '32 will give an exhibition of prestidigitation and magic. Two motion pictures, a Grantland Rice "Sport-light," and an animated cartoon, will provide the final entertainment before the refreshments. Corn-cob pipes, inscribed with the usual red H and the class numerals, will be given out as souvenirs to all the men who are present...
...Frank W. Palmer's place near Norton, Kan. last week, beneath the creak and jingle of harness and the wooden noises of wagons you could hear the bang and rattle of hard corn ears hitting against wagon boards as 13 strapping farmers set out to see who was the best cornhusker in the U. S. Drought had made Palmer's stand of corn sparse for a husking bee- barely 60 bu. to the acre-and caramel-colored dust rose from underfoot to get in your nose, but there were not many weeds and that makes for fast husking...
Flailing away with both hands, up and down the corn rows the farmers went as fast as they could go, each well-trained team of horses leading in front without direction, each tough cornstalk a fight. After 80 min. a gun boomed. Swiftly the judges weighed the yield. Ray Hanson of Cottonwood County, Minn, had the biggest load but he did not win. Competitive cornhusking has its intricacies. For every pound of marketable corn that the gleaners find left in the field the husker is penalized three pounds, for every ounce over five ounces of silks and shucks...
...criticizes the system of tariff adjustment and refers to it as proceeding in a "haphazard and irresponsible fashion." "To give the farmers higher duties on swine, corn, and meat is a continuation of the old process of trying to throw dust in their eyes." "One is often led to suspect that the pervading process of log-rolling and swapping has ended in changes which some particular domestic interest and its Congressional representative had at heart...