Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flooded with great care, my dear." Beatrice Stella Tanner Campbell Corn-wallis-West, now 68, had failed once as an actress when her husband went to South Africa for a tuberculosis cure, leaving 22-year-old Mrs. Campbell with two children. When he came home six years later he found his wife the toast of London, friend of George Bernard Shaw, famed enough to add a line of her own to Shaw's Pygmalion. Between her husband's death in the Boer War and her son's death in the World War, she became famed for having...
...calcium carbide from Japan, stearic acid and thumb tacks from Holland, rock salt from Canada, woven wire fencing, sulphide paper and binder twine from England-all on the grounds of dumping. Following his wheat export proposal Mr. Wallace announced final details of the plan to raise hog and corn prices (TIME, Aug. 21): the Government will spend $55,000,000 buying up 5,000,000 hogs (4,000,000 young animals, 1,000,000 sows about to litter.) The 5,000,000 hogs will be used to feed the unemployed...
Completing what he called "the toughest week" since March 4, President Roosevelt returned from Washington to Hyde Park to continue his vacation. He again commented on the height of the corn as he drove in the gate, said it had grown considerably during his absence. Like his corn, his Recovery Program was last week rapidly approaching full growth. He had signed the oil, steel and lumber codes, thereby bringing three of the nation's largest basic industries under the Blue Eagle in a single week. He was not surprised to hear that Administrator Johnson hoped to round...
...built-up Illinois valley, wintering waterfowl depend on sportsmen's grain for their food supply; 3) stoppage of baiting would close many a shooting club, throw many a bayman and other attendant out of work, stifle a market for millions of bushels of U.S. farmers' corn...
...This is to remove some 600,000,000 lb. of pork from the market this year, and 1,800,000,000 lb. (16% of the pork crop) next year. Said Mr. Wallace: "I am not worried about this emergency program. But I am terribly concerned lest the Corn Belt should fail to recognize how really dangerous this program can be unless it is tied up closely to a long-term program [reduction of corn and hog production next year]. . . . The after-effects otherwise would be disastrous to hog prices for the 1934-35 season and for some time thereafter...