Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...word auspice, meaning sign or omen, is telescoped from the Latin words avis, bird, and specere, to see. In ancient Rome the appearance and behavior of birds-whether they were eagles, vultures, owls, crows, or ravens, which direction they flew, how they ate grains of corn-determined whether public assemblies should be held, whether armies should attack, whether merchants should be bullish or bearish...
...wheat crop as a war measure, sells a sizable portion abroad for needed foreign exchange. Thus last year, while the nation on paper produced enough for home use, Italy in fact suffered a wheat shortage. Bakers, unable to purchase sufficient wheat flour, eked out their dough with substitutes like corn flour, bean flour, ground lentils or ground ceci, yellow, bean-like pellets. The Government legalized this adulteration up to 20% but bakers took advantage of the practice, began turning out queer tasting, colored loaves only 50% wheat flour. Public grumbling grew, scores were clapped into prison for their protests...
...will be cut down by substituting rice several times a week for the army ration of macaroni; 2) consumption by the nation will be cut down by forcing the people to eat, instead of their familiar white wheat bread, uniformly baked and priced whole wheat loaves, adulterated with 10% corn flour. This week Italian bakers started hauling the new loaves from their ovens and housewives scornfully labeled it "grey bread." Since the decree, a great propaganda campaign has been staged to convince Italians that the new bread is better for them. Three weeks ago Il Duce's own newsorgan...
...tryouts planned this summer, a few plays written by recognized authors and backed by established producers may outlive the corn crops. Noteworthy rural premieres include Ward Green's Honey at Dennis; Hollywood Be Thy Name (by Myron Fagan, at Cape May); Let's Never Change (by Owen Davis, at Skowhegan); Tomorrow's Sunday (by Philo Higley, at Cohasset); Soubrette (by Jacques Deval, at Ogunquit); Made in Heaven (by Herbert Crocker, at Somerset, Pa.) ; Music at Evening (by Robert Nathan, at White Plains); Dame Nature (by André Birabeau, adapted by Patricia Collinge, at Westport...
Died. George James Short Broomhall, 82, British grain broker, international authority on wheat, founder and onetime editor of Liverpool's Corn Trade News; in Liverpool...