Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...place; almost as much as a lynching itself. If Chicago audiences want to cheer the underdog, let them do it heartily, but it would be better to get him first, and prove that he is the underdog. At present he is probably motoring through the Middle West, spraying the corn and the farmers with his automatic exterminator...
...going. Before grains had had time to recover, word came of President Roosevelt's opposition to any inflationary silver legislation at this session of Congress (see p. 9). The reaction in the grain market was swift. In a single day wheat fell 4⅝,? rye and barley 5?, corn 4?, oats 3?. Traders hastened to announce last week that urgent liquidation of grain holdings was over, that the market would now stabilize...
...Grandma's, another crisis occurs. The Wrolf chases Grandma and Red Riding Hood into the closet. He is on the point of breaking down the door when the industrious pig arrives and quickly assembles the equipment called for by the situation-a bag of unpopped corn and a frying pan. He warms the corn and pours it into the rear of the Wolfs baggy trousers. The Wolf, convinced that he is being peppered from the rear by a machine gun, scuttles off. The two frivolous piglets arrive in time to join the celebration at Grandma's cottage...
Charles Edwin Mitchell's last great New Era deal was an agreement to merge Manhattan's many-branched Corn Exchange Bank Trust Co. with his National City. Crashing bank stock prices made the terms of the deal look ridiculous, and on Nov. 7, 1929, National City's stockholders failed to ratify the merger. Same day some of Chase National Bank's bevy of affiliates began to buy Corn Exchange in the open market and elsewhere. Albert Henry Wiggin wanted to make Chase the biggest bank in the U. S. He did-but not by gobbling...
...Corn is not the only thing that grows fast and big on the sunbaked, rain-drenched prairies of Illinois. A single tree was all that broke the flat monotony of a stretch of prairie between Urbana and West Urbana (now Champaign) in 1867 when citizens planted a State university there. In 67 years their seed has blossomed into the nation's seventh largest university. The 1,500-acre waste of prairie is green and landscaped, thick with great buildings. The new president whom trustees picked last week will administer a faculty & student body numbering 15,000 and a plant...