Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corn Crib, Corn Field...
...Please keep up your snappy style and don't cut down on the pepper, think you should print more boosts in your Letters column and less comment from subscribers who knew that John Doe was born on Thursday in a corn crib and not Wednesday in a corn field, those hecklers aren't funny anyhow...
...Government can spend tens of millions taking surplus cotton, corn, hogs, tobacco, turpentine, etc., etc., off the market, why cannot it take off surplus garments? Especially when perhaps 17.000,000 citizens on Relief need clothes? Why shouldn't WPA buy $10,000,000 worth of men's and boys' cheap suits, distribute them to the needy and get Amalgamated Clothing Workers back to work, 30,000 or 40,000 of them in New York City alone...
...Corn. After last year's huge corn harvest (2,644,995,000 bu.), mid-western farmers were asked to plant 18% fewer acres. Many ignored the request. It is estimated that by fall, last year's surplus will total 300,000,000 bu., 30% above normal. This fact plus prospects of an average 1938 crop last week dropped futures prices on the Chicago Exchange to 57? a bu., 60? below last year, and prompted Administrator Howard Ross Tolley to predict that a Federal corn loan will be necessary this fall...
Sharpest hint that Caldwell has no intention of mellowing into a sharecropper humorist is A Knife to Cut the Corn Bread With...