Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief grocery store, the new building is decorated throughout with a grain motif by Architects John Auger Holabird and John Wellborn Root. The entrance grill bristles with fuzzy sheaves and kernels, grain garnishes the elevator doors, flanking the clock outside stand a wheat-raising Egyptian and a corn-fed Amerindian. Ripe wheat heads were thrust into the hands of visitors on the opening day as they peeped into the main trading floor, 113 ft. x 163 ft., where business was going on as usual in the wheat pit (38 ft. across) and nearby corn, oat, rye pits. Visitors gaped...
Opening his bag he swished out a shower of yellow corn. Cawing, hopping, flapping and gobbling, the Royal Rooks celebrated. Replete at last, they waddled off toward benches on Tower Green, flopped up with difficulty to perch on top rails, croaked contentedly, and with their large, dark, watery eyes ogled human bench-roosters...
...Ladies and gentlemen, "Friends and seekers, "Buy your corn whiskey from us. "Pure charred corn whiskey. "Delivered any time, day or night. "Probably this looks too bold to be true, but if you think so give us a call and follow instruction, any one that wants it, officers and all. "Prices are: "$1 per pt, $2 per qt., $4 per half gallon. "Nothing over half gallon delivered...