Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wheat last week continued to make economic and perhaps political history when the Chicago price dropped to 83?¢ per bu., lowest since 1914. For the first time in 28 years corn sold in the pits 2¢ per bu. above wheat instead of the usual 20¢ or 30¢ below. The husbandman's cry of "Crisis!" rose more shrilly throughout the land. Chairman Alexander Legge of the Federal Farm Board abruptly departed from Washington on a second crusade through the West for wheat acreage reduction (TIME, Aug. 4). En route he paused at Chicago to confer with cotton growers...
...declared the month was hotter and dryer over a larger area for longer periods than any other July in recorded U. S. weather history. The drought came too late to affect the wheat crop but it did, according to the U. S. Department of Agriculture, "much irreparable damage" to corn. Live stock, lacking pasturage and water, was rushed to slaughter houses before it died. The Farm Board prepared plans for "drought loans" to carry husbandmen over until next year...
Research, Propaganda. As a separate part of his Bureau, Chief Woodcock announced the formation of a Division of Research & Public Instruction, which will compile statistics on arrests for drunkenness, deaths from cirrhosis of the liver, importation & exportation of hops, production of corn sugar, etc., etc. and announce its findings to the public. "I have an opening in this division for some first-class people," said...
First national sport of the U. S. was neither baseball nor horseshoe-pitching but rifle-shooting. Shooting was part of most citizens' daily lives; nearly every village had a range where shoots were held for turkeys, chickens, or barrels of corn whiskey. Only 20 years ago dead-eyed Annie Oakley was as popular a figure as Helen Wills Moody is today. Nowadays the public gets more excited over flagpole sitting than over marksmanship. Last fortnight when the U. S. International Free-Rifle team sailed for Antwerp to try for the fifth successive time to bring the championship back to this...
...Architects, through the Library of Congress, sent out an appeal last week for amateur photographers' snapshots of examples of Early American architecture, to complete a record of American architecture already being assembled in the Congressional Library. Memorable houses, barns, fences, doorways, well heads, water spouts, window frames, corn cribs, water troughs, ice houses, smoke houses and the like are wanted, photographs of remnants of the architectural past not easily available in standard reference books. Promised Leicester B. Holland, chief of the Division of Fine Arts of the Library of Congress...