Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over 1,000,000 families in the rural South eat nothing but salt pork, corn meal and molasses. Their members are frequent victims of that painful deficiency disease, pellagra, with its attendant diarrhea, dementia, dermatitis. Physicians have known for nearly 25 years that small amounts of green vegetables and milk will forestall the disease. But still pellagra continues. In its advanced stages it has been considered incurable, since the patients are unable to ingest the necessary kinds of food...
...perfectly known. Only unpleasant reactions were flushing, itching and sensations of intense heat in various parts of the skin. There are many relapses, mostly because the patients, when convalescent, have to return home, where once again they tuck in to the old bill-of-fare: salt pork, corn meal, molasses...
...clients, the remaining 16 professional tipsters (usually taking a cut of all profits, but not sharing losses); together the 16 controlled 300 accounts, and one of them had transactions in the first six months of 1937 totaling 39,000,000 bu. of wheat, 11,000,000 bu. of corn and 39,000 bales of cotton; 15 lost money for a majority of their clients, one was on relief, another had a string of gambling houses...
...Deal is a system of gardening by which the fertilizer is withheld from the corn and applied to the weeds...
...Anna was not the last of her species. During the War many a strong girl got a man's job toting letters from door to door. At least one who still functions is Katie E. Philpot, 44, of Williamston, N. C. Famed otherwise for fine tobacco, corn meal and wild turkeys, Williamston takes pride in the slim, resolute figure of Katie Philpot marching dutifully through the north end of town every morning and afternoon, her slim back bent under a weight of farm papers, religious tracts and mail-order literature, her slim legs encased in black cotton hose below...