Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...City of bamboo. Three thousand villagers were set to chopping the long reeds. Huge rafts of bamboo swept down the flood, were lassoed from the banks as they came opposite the site, and Congress City was soon rising in record time amid the great mogul's cotton and corn fields. Milk is an important ingredient in nonviolent, teetotal Saint Gandhi's politics, and 500 head of cattle were soon creating difficulties among the bamboo stalks, for it is almost impossible for a sincerely pious Hindu to be firm with the cow, a sacred animal. Finally bamboo cages were...
Artist Marin's total disbelief in copying nature, on the ground that anyone would rather have a real ear of corn than a painted one, led him ten years ago to a kind of shorthand in which a triangle represented a sail, a jigging line the sea. In his recent work, extremes of this kind have given place to more effective economies: strokes of color and ragged whites which sometimes fail but more often succeed in bringing to life the "fighting" forces of wind, weight, water and light which he feels in landscape. Marin works over each picture with...
...forest fire, chatting with a Georgia chain gang that dug a path for their busses through a landslide. Most fun, however, was a two-taste of farm life in Georgia's Habersham County. After a hearty breakfast of grits, bacon & eggs and biscuits covered with ham gravy and corn syrup, the boys and girls went forth into the fields to string barbed wire fences, lime the ground, scrape roads, chop trees, split logs, ride mules, barbecue a pair of pigs, drive a tractor (until Student Katy Sprackling broke it). They astonished a Georgia farm family by rebuilding its shack...
...cynosure. But Mr. Connick remarked of Abundance, a nude male figure by David Slivka, that it looked more like a failure of the fig leaf crop; of Occident & Orient, two female nudes by Jacques Schnier, that they would be barred from burlesque; of South American Woman Grinding Corn by Cecilia Graham, that it should be called Woman Bet-Loser Shoving a Peanut With Her Nose...
...great number. Commodity Corp. uses the same procedure, but instead of buying stocks and bonds, it buys actual commodities or commodity future contracts. On December 31, 35% of its portfolio was in the warehouse, 65% in futures. It had future contracts to buy or sell in cocoa, copper, corn, cotton, hides, oats, rubber, sugar, wheat, wool and pepper. In the warehouse it held cocoa (179,482 lb.), lead (659,836 lb.), pepper (785,600 lb.), rubber (67,036 lb.), sugar (1,344,000 lb.), wool (51,751 lb.) and zinc (120,046 lb.). An investor who held 2% of Commodity...