Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because the Drought came later in the season, crop prospects as a whole are brighter than in 1934. Pastures are in worse condition in many sections, but the livestock situation is not nearly so desperate,as two years ago, because there are fewer beasts to feed and water. Spot corn last week sold at $1.37 a bushel in Chicago, a 16-year high, and was actually above the price of wheat (see p. 42). Over 1,000 of the 3,000 counties in the U. S. were now listed as drought emergency areas, including every county in the Dakotas, Kansas...
...three hours before the shattered City of Memphis was found. Then ground crew stumbled on an isolated clearing on the Behlmann farm, found 400-ft. swath through the corn strewn with the wreckage of the $50,000 all-metal plane. Scattered among the debris were the bodies of the eight victims, all killed instantly. The pilot's watch had stopped...
...days later the same board predicted a "disaster"' corn crop of 1,439,135,000 bu., worst in 55 years, down 850,000,000 bu. from last year's harvest. *The phrase originated on the floor of the U. S. Senate in 1858 when South Carolina's James Henry Hammond challenged the economic power of the North thus: "You dare not make war on cotton. No power on earth dares to make war upon it. Cotton is King...
...skilled worker in the olive fields, who seduces his best friend's sweetheart, plays the guitar with native genius, tries to blow up a dam, plots against the village priest, endures torture and a year in prison, gets free in time to burn a great store of corn, become reconciled with the friend he had betrayed, and dies as one of the leaders in the Asturian revolt...
Last week rains broke the drought in the South, gave hope of moderate crops. Still in critical shape were the corn states which, heat or no heat, could produce no more than 74% of their normal crop. Added to the list of emergency drought states was Governor Landon's Kansas, where Soprano Marion Talley's 1,600 acres of wheat were scorched brown...