Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...syllables: "I cannot honestly say that my heart is happy today, because I have seen with my own eyes some of the things that I have been hearing and reading about. . . ." When he reached Washington he was to hear and read still more. The August crop report predicted a corn harvest only two-thirds of normal, 500,000,000 bu. smaller than estimated a month earlier...
...with dainty little hands and feet, round shoulders and a small, sad face. Long famed as a speculator on the Chicago Board of Trade, he is accustomed to grappling with titans. Three years ago he cornered 70% of the visible U. S. corn supply, "squeezed" shorts, made himself...
...long ago John Speculator was talking hopefully of "dollar wheat." Last week wheat was $1.15 and the new watchword was "dollar corn." Rubber, which sold as low as 3¢ per lb. in 1933, was up last week to a four-year high of 17¢. Silk on Manhattan's Commodity Exchange had the busiest day in months. Cotton hit 14¢ per lb. for the first time since 1930. With few exceptions the raw "things" which the U. S. finds essential to its well-being were in high speculative favor. The number of citizens eager to swap dollars for salable goods...
...pastures are in the poorest condition on record. Milk production ... on July 1 was the smallest on record for that date.'' The July 1 wheat estimate-484,000,000 bu., about half a normal crop-had already told the story of the U. S. wheat farmer. The corn estimate-2,100,000,000 bu.-was by last week a piece of outdated optimism. The potato crop in upper New York State, in New Jersey, on Long Island was suffering severely. Massachusetts had to close all its forests to the public because of the fire hazard. On the Pacific...
Jobless, penniless, Jimmie Rodgers yodeled his way around the North Carolina countryside, drank all the corn whiskey he could get, organized a little band of hillbillies to sing for food and drink in tumbledown Southern hotels. In 1927 he read that Victor Co. was operating a recording station in Bristol, Va. He bummed his way to Bristol, wandered into the Victor building...