Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South Gate of the White House grounds. Wearing loin cloths with disklike reflectors fore and aft, as protection against motor traffic, the 14 braves entered and jogged up the walk. In the silk-walled Blue Room the President received the naked Indians and the three kernels of corn inviting him to attend the peace celebration of the Six Nations at Fort Niagara on Sept. 3. He shook the Redmen's hands and said that he was sorry but he thought he could not get there. Well satisfied, they trotted down the steps from the South Portico and walked a couple...
...Black of the Federal Reserve (see p. 58), Governor Harrison of the New York Reserve Bank, Acting Relief Administrator Aubrey Williams. Drought Relief Administrator Lawrence Westbrook, AAAdministrator Chester C. Davis, Donald Richberg, General Johnson (see p.11). If any of them had brought anything so simple as a bag of corn, Franklin Roosevelt would have been pleased...
...three inches, four inches, five inches in parts of Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio! Let it break Drought's brazen back! People would again have water to wash their dusty faces. Cattle would again have water to drink. In some places rain would save the remainder of the corn crop. If it kept up, forage crops could be sown in ruined grain fields to help feed cattle during the winter. If it kept up still longer, it might replenish the subsoil moisture enough to make possible a good winter wheat crop next year...
Last January AAA sprang its great corn-hog reduction program. The hog part of it provided that every farmer who cut his hog birthrate 25% during 1934 would get a bonus of $5 a head for the other 75%. To many a Midwestern farmer who usually raised 100 hogs this meant $375 of wel- come Government cash if he would raise only 75 hogs. That was what Secretary Wallace had in mind...
Investigators went. They checked invoices and freight bills to find out how many pigs Middlesex had shipped in former years. They found that Middlesex consumed very little of that staple hog-food, corn; that only 105 farmers claimed to have raised these 100,000 pigs a year; that the piggeries, situated on back roads, were mostly five or six acres in extent, few over 20 acres. But they also found that on each of those farms were littered anywhere from a few hundred to 6,000 or more pigs a year; that they were nourished on the succulent garbage...