Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...orange Buddy D. which scampered "out of judgment" for all but 15 minutes of his run. After a week, all 23 of the bird dogs which their owners considered the best in the U. S. had had a chance to follow their noses for quail over the clover and corn-stubble fields of the Hobart Ames Plantation near Grand Junction, Tenn., and the judges in the 40th annual national bird-dog championship field trials, unable to name a winner, picked four for a runoff...
...Active law practice held him not many years after that. In 1911 he bought 1,000 acres in the Berkshires near Williamstown, Mass., called the place Mount Hope, has spent much of his time there ever since. He became a world authority on potato growing, experimented with corn from South America, bees, poultry, finally and most importantly with cattle. Able to converse fluently in Latin, he made his three children learn to speak it, and visitors occasionally heard the tots deliver bulletins on the day's egg output in the sonorous language of Cicero. Today there...
...Chicago newshawks were barred from Mr. Cutten's door which bears the name "Chicago Perforating Co." His friends were sure that the speculator who, once a $7-a-week stockboy in Chicago's Marshall Field's, had made $1,500,000 in corn in a single month and ten years ago cornered more wheat than any man in history (about 20,000,000 bu.), would appeal his case or transfer his trading activities to Canada where he was born. But later that day Speculator Cutten declared laconically: "What's the use of trading? The market doesn...
...Last autumn the American Institute of Food Distribution estimated that the 1934 tomato pack would be up some 20%, the corn pack 20%, the pea pack 15%, the string bean pack 9%. The Alaska salmon pack was the biggest on record. All during summer and autumn Drought dropped into the can-makers' laps orders for hundreds of millions of cans for the meat which the Government was tinning for the unemployed. Last week Continental Can Co. announced that 1934 had been the best year in history, with profits of $10,707,000 against...
...which the company was also short, had fluctuated violently. Soon the company found itself being slowly squeezed to death by a world-wide shortage of oils and fats which was aggravated when cottonseed oil output in the U. S. was cut by cotton acreage reduction, lard output by the corn-hog program, beef tallow by the Drought...