Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thinning corn from dawn to dark a farmer's helper is lucky to get $2 per day. Many a factory hand gets hardly more. But CWA puts jobless men to work at 50? an hour-$3 for a six-hour day of not too arduous labor. Last week in Toledo four metal manufacturers complained that workers whom they were paying between 35? and 40? under an NRA code were deserting to take better-paying CWA jobs. While relief officials were investigating, Georgia's Governor Talmadge charged that CWA was also hiring help away from the farm. He complained...
...waste my time fighting." Neither a member of a committee nor in immediate want, Artist John Sloan who three weeks ago took over the pupils of the late great George Luks (TIME, Dec. 11), enjoyed the row hugely. 'The trouble is," said he, "the natural result of throwing corn in the chicken coop. There are bound to be feathers flying...
Slap in Face. One afternoon a roomful of newshawks faced Secretary of Agriculture Wallace in his office with Agricultural Adjustment Administrator George Peek stony-faced at his elbow. The Secretary explained that: 1) the production of corn and hogs must be cut because the export of pork had fallen off; 2) the packers would be handed a code which provided the Government access to their books, power to control their margin of profit; 3) the AAA's milk marketing agreements were unsatisfactory and would have to be revised to control dairy production...
...raises Herefords. So was thin-faced Walter Biggar from Dalbeattie, Scotland, who has been judging the Exposition's champion steers for nine years. So were some 45,000 spectators daily who looked at some 13,500 animals on the hoof, largest assembly on record. A new corn king was crowned-C. Worth Holmes of Joy, Ill. A new wheat king was crowned -Frank Isackson of Elfros, Saskatchewan. A new healthiest boy and two healthiest girls (tied for first place) were named-curly-mopped Glen L. Sherwood, 19, 6 ft. tall, 177 lb., who has shoulders as broad...
Scotch. Rye and Bourbon are the chief whiskies of North America. Bourbon starts with corn and a dash of small grains. Irish starts with barley but particular Irishmen always drink Scotch. Scotch also starts with barley but the ingredients are better, notably its water. And Scotch is the chief whiskey of all the rest of the world...