Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fairness to Northwestern's co-operative spirit in making the games available to alumni and other fans through radio facilities, TIME should correct the impression that Northwestern University has "succumbed to Kellogg's Corn Flakes...
...program Ryan was asked what the Harlowmen ate in the way of breakfast food on the train. Hesitating for only a moment he said to Bill Cunningham, his interviewer, "Well, you know and I know, but I can't say. But I can say that you, Bill, had corn flakes...
...slippery elm bark for flavoring. Next morning an outdoor fire was made and the freshly scoured copper kettle swung into place. Cider on to boil, apples ready to add, and the bilin' was under way. Also ready was the long handle stirrer with a row of clean white corn husks tied through the row of holes in the end of the paddle. This was manipulated, all day long, by a relay of stirrers of which I was one. By the time the cows came home there was a grand accumulation of spicy, mahogany-colored apple butter ready to store...
...drop in metals pretty well completed the deflation of last spring's commodity boom, the root of current business troubles. Cash wheat was down from $1.60 to $1.23 per bu.; corn from $1.58 to $1.21 per bu. ; cotton from 15¼? to 8½? per lb.; rubber from 27? to 17¼ per lb.; steel scrap from $23.50 to $18 per ton; cocoa from 13? to 7? per lb.; turpentine from...
Ridden by heavy taxes and a feudal system of landlordism, pinched by the British corn laws (which put a high tariff on imported grain, in favor of England's home-grown wheat), the Irish had been reduced to practical subsistence on the potato, and when that crop failed whole counties were left literally foodless. Governmental remedial machinery was slow, graft-ridden, stupidly conceived. While the famine lasted. 21,770 people died of starvation, the total Irish mortality for the five years that ended in 1851 was close upon a million. The two most important results were: a desperate stiffening...