Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that "The lights at 'Shady Oaks,' the comfortable country place on Lake Worth where Publisher Carter & wife do much of their entertaining, generally burn far into the night'' and that he never serves beer because he dislikes it, "but there is always abundance of Texas corn and Scotch, his favorite drinks, which he usually takes neat." This statement is not only slanderous and false, but that you should introduce Mrs. Carter's name into such an atmosphere is proof enough that a gentleman is needed to edit your copy...
...steward's books further reveal that Bridgen had charges against him for: "commones and sizinges," which was board together with food and drink ordered from the buttery: "tuition"; 'study-rente and beed," or room and bed "for and candell"; wood; and for bringing corn from Charlestown." On he other side of the ledgers, Bridgen vas credited with such things as "sillier," "wheatt," "malte," "Indian" or born and "a bush of parsnips...
...description ("a land of gold"), he came to Nebraska. When he arrived, he found nothing more than a village of seminomadic Indians, realized that the stories of streets paved with gold were myths, returned to Mexico. But the land has become a land covered with gold-the gold of corn and wheat. Hence Nebraska's annual Royal Castle...
...bulletins on the Press about most of its doings, is inclined to silence and anonymity when it grapples with plant ailments that might be harmful to human consumers. For many months the Department has been trying to find out why, in a few arid regions of the Southwest, wheat, corn and alfalfa are sickly, and why cattle fed solely on this sickly fodder are puny and short-lived. The Department did not like to hear ranchmen blame "alkali disease," because during the last century alkali disease afflicted the Indians inhabiting the same areas. Last week, when it could also report...
...Agricultural production costs are highly controversial, vary radically in different sections, widely between adjacent farms. According to the Department of Agriculture, average cost of production of wheat is 75? a bu., of corn 49?, of oats...