Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Photographer Edward Steichen, 58, admitted that lately it had been "a little difficult to get any fun out of advertising photography." Furthermore, there were things he wanted to do. First off, he was going to Yucatan to see if he could find out anything about the origins of Indian corn. Corn now seems to him the basis of North American civilization. Before he dies he wants to plot out and at least partially complete a vast photographic mural of America, beginning with astronomical photographs of the heavens, indented lower down with mountain ranges, cities, factories, then breaking up into smaller...
...steamboat because of the ever-present danger of exploding boilers. The account of Mother Duchesne's work-which did not come to an end until 1852-occupies half of Mother Callan's book. It is full of homely detail: the French nuns' first encounter with corn bread; Mother Duchesne's purchase of a slave, Rachel, from her bishop "as a favor" when he left for France, later reselling her to help pay for a dormitory...
...their No. 1 job still ahead. Both House and Senate bills aim to give Secretary Wallace more power to deal with mounting farm production than he possesses under last year's makeshift Soil Conservation Act. Both authorize him to draw up annual marketing quotas in advance for wheat, corn, cotton, rice and tobacco, to obtain observance of them by means of benefit-paying voluntary contracts. Both bills agree in principle that when reserves on hand grow too large and two-thirds of the producers involved consent through a referendum, compulsory marketing control can be invoked and penalty taxes levied...
...tough land under the corn mister: She has changed the bone in the cheeks...
...Senate. What ended the filibuster about anti-lynching-which had served its purpose of keeping the Wagner Van Nuys Anti-Lynching Bill from reaching a vote -was the Pope-McGill Farm Bill, giving the Secretary of Agriculture power to set up crop quotas for wheat, corn, cotton, rice and tobacco, establish "ever-normal granaries by buying surpluses in fat years." Unfortunately for its proponents, when the Farm Bill which Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith's Agriculture Committee had been wrestling with for a week finally reached the floor, the tone of that body's proceedings was not greatly...