Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hired hands, leaving nothing available for capital and man agement." In 1932. farm income had dropped another $1,700,000,000. According to Milo Reno, a farmer would have to receive the following prices if he was to make the bare costs of production: wheat. $1.35 a bu.; corn, 92?; oats, 49?; hogs, $11.25 a cwt.; chickens 24? a Ib. Last week's Chicago prices: wheat, 85?; corn, 45?; oats, 35?; hogs, $4.60; chickens, 10?. These being Chicago prices, farmers' receipts were lower by the amounts of transportation, storage and brokerage fees...
...effort to pass on to the farmers themselves the problem of marketing surpluses, raising prices, reducing acreage. Last week the oldest co-operative of all, Farmers' National Grain Dealers Association, split in two over policy, and the nation had on hand a 500,000,000 bu. surplus of corn, a 150,000,000 bu. surplus of wheat, a 500,000,000 Ib. surplus of hogs...
...another. Do it we will." President Roosevelt squared off at critics of his recovery program like Keith Neville of Nebraska (see p. 11). "Ninety per cent, of complaints come from misconception. For example, it has been said that NRA has failed to raise the price of wheat and corn and hogs. . . ." He reminded people that the "pillars" of recovery were the NRA for industry, the A. A. A. for agriculture. Another pillar, "the money of the country in the banks of the country," was the subject of his unexpected, newsmaking conclusion. He promised a "sound managed currency" based...
...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. The tall, lusty host never serves beer because he dislikes it, but there is always an abundance of Texas corn and Scotch, his favorite drinks, which he usually takes neat. Here the Farley party, joined by Funnyman Will Rogers, was welcomed...
Much more popular awards were the second and third prizes to U. S. Artists John Steuart Curry and Henry Varnum Poor. Chunky, corn-fed John Steuart Curry is Kansas' gift to the arts (TIME, April 10). Growing yearly in reputation and ability, Painter Curry's solid, exciting canvases of life on the prairies have been widely shown, generously bought by all but Kansans. "Tornado," the canvas that won him $1,000 last week, shows a Kansas family diving for a storm cellar as a dusty horn of wind sweeps in from the darkened horizon. On its first showing...