Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your reporter is evidently not a close student of ornithology. Whoever heard of a flock of 30 hawks over a cornfield? Does the reporter think that the solitary, carnivorous hawk travels in flocks and feeds on corn? Did he not have crows in mind instead of hawks? W. C. COTHRAN Greenville...
Three old men of the prairie bestride the back of U. S. agricultural economy: Corn, Wheat and Cotton. Of these the most corpulent is Cotton. At the end of the cotton marketing year on July 31 the Department of Commerce and the Census Bureau set out to measure him. Last week they reported the 'awful facts. In spite of the reducing corset which AAA pays him to wear, he has battened on bountiful crops, gobbled the rich cream of New Deal crop loans and, deprived of the exercise of foreign trade, grown more ugly and obese...
Besides melanin and both hemoglobins, said the scientists, a yellow pigment, carotene, is found in the upper layers of all human skin. Carotene, a component of sweet potatoes, corn, butter, carrots and milk, is responsible for the yellowish palms, soles and eyelids of white persons. But although a white person may acquire a pale yellow tinge all over by eating enormous amounts of carotene, carotene is not what makes Orientals yellow. Normal persons of all races have roughly the same amounts of carotene...
There's where the cotton and the corn and tatoes grow...
...crop island, St. Croix was hard hit when the bottom fell out of the raw sugar market and Crucians could no longer buy corn meal and salt fish to keep their fungee pots going. But relief cards, at first ignored as a white man's joke, soon brought an unprecedented prosperity. The Negroes, given canned goods, traded them for rations they liked better, for bright flimsy dresses, dime-store jewelry, tobacco...