Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Morley: Her hand flying merrily over the keys like a white hen picking up corn...
...three campus publications-Crimson, Advocate, Lampoon. He asked questions when he accompanied his father to newspaper conventions, and when, after graduation in 1920, he started on the Register & Tribune as a plain reporter. He still asks questions wherever he goes, on his frequent visits to Manhattan and Washington. No corn-fed bumpkin, no dallying rich-man's-son. inquisitive John Cowles has stored behind his thick-lensed glasses and his moon face a wealth of essential fact. An excellence of perspective on top of a sound judgment makes him one of the most important young newspaper publishers...
Hard-bitten old farmers shook their heads and said the corn was more important. Younger Iowans had been singing for months, singing while they plowed and planted, milked their cows and fed the hens. Frequently they would do their chores before dawn, drive all day to rehearse at county meetings with other farm folk. Result: an all-rural production...
Richest strike in Nevada's fabulous Corn-stock Lode was made in March 1873 when the Consolidated Virginia mine opened a silvershot vein 54 ft. thick. Before it was played out the vein yielded $190,000,000 in pure bullion and made a onetime Irish immigrant clerk one of the richest men in the greatest get-rich-quick era in U. S. history. Like many another bonanza king, John William Mackay beat a quick & gaudy path to the capitals of Europe but he did leave an enduring monument to his amazing energy-Postal Telegraph...
According to Government figures, cattle & calves on the hoof totaled 60,667,000 last Jan. 1, as against 68,290,000 one year before, a decrease of 11%. Within the same twelvemonth Drought and AAA's corn-hog program reduced the number of hogs 35%, from 57,177,000 to 37,007,000, smallest in 50 years. Sheep and lambs, least affected by Drought, were down some 5% to 49,766,000 last January. Out of proportion to these decreases in supply were the increases in price paid by the packer. Hogs that cost...