Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forbids the trapping, sale or serving of wild duck.* On the inaccessible islands and marshes of Maryland's and Virginia's Eastern Shore dwell several hundred furtive, treacherous, half-wild natives who make a business of ducklegging. Their traps are funnel-mouthed wire contrivances baited with corn, catching up to 40 duck at one haul. Wardens have lately captured three 8-ft., home-made cannon which fire 2 Ib. of shot, kill up to 300 duck at a blast. Trappers ship out between 200.000 and 400.000 duck per year under label of seafood, are said to operate through...
Jerusalem Artichokes are sunflowers which have a starchy, tuberous root. They flourish in semi-arid regions. Like yams in Southern States, corn in Prairie States, barley in Northern States, potatoes in Idaho and Maine, sugar beets in the West, sorghum in the South, sugar cane in Louisiana, Jerusalem artichokes can be turned into alcohol. If produced on a large scale such alcohol could be produced for from 7 to 10? a gallon, figured Dr. Leo Martin Christensen of Iowa State College. At that price it is cheap enough to mix with gasoline as a motor fuel, especially if any need...
While all this was going on, the price of cotton climbed from 8? to 11.7? a lb.; wheat from 59? to 90?; corn from 39? to 85?; hogs 4? to 7.8?; beef cattle 4? to 5?-national farm income from the neighborhood of $4,000,000,000 to more than $6,000,000,000. Not even AAA claims responsibility for all these gains. Drought and dollar devaluation worked in the same direction...
...this year, Sena tor Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia with many backers has sprung up to question Mr. Wallace's contention. For the chief disputed amendments-licensing and bookinspecting for processors-have nothing directly to do with carrying out AAA's program of "balancing" production of cotton, corn, hogs, wheat and other basic commodities. These new powers are for the purpose of letting AAA extend its control over other commodities. AAA answered this charge only in general terms. Said Chester Davis in a broadcast to farmers last month: "Unless the Act can be made fully effective...
...grand-scale farmer. He likes to work with the laborers on his 4,000-acre ranch at Santa Rita. Calif., or on his 350-acre farm at Sibleyville, near Rochester. In Illinois, where he is the State's largest individual land owner, he owns the biggest corn farm in the world, and his AAA checks for crop reductions run to fat figures...