Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week corn had a whirl. Spot corn touched...
...seen several times upon the floor contrary to his custom. Arthur Cutten was reported active. Oldtime Trader Gardner B. Van Ness was home from Manhattan. Herbert J. Blum, long inactive, was reported once more functioning. Jesse Livermore was back in Chicago with his new wife and reported bullish on corn...
...necessary line of attack. I don't contemplate such reduction of acreage as meaning that we permanently forsake our foreign markets. . . . In reducing the production of hogs, the best method may be for the Government to pay the hog producer rent on a specified amount of his corn land, provided he retires that acreage from corn production and also restricts the tonnage of hogs marketed." The farmer who already has his 1933 acreage planted and fertilized will not be able to avail himself of the benefits of Prong...
...acre farm in Polk County, Iowa, Secretary Wallace has given much time and thought to developing prize seed corn. As a boy he was impressed by the fact that judges always seemed to pick the best looking ear rather than the one that promised the biggest yield. By crossbreeding he perfected a seed corn which now sells far & wide throughout Iowa. Wrote he: "Show corn ideals deal too much with beauty and too little with utility. Whether corn has smooth or rough kernels means very little more than the presence or absence of a dimple on a pretty girl...
Because his Farmer office was always littered with samples of seed corn, that publication's new Des Moines building was made mouse-proof throughout. On its roof Henry Wallace plays badminton with Managing Editor Donald Murphy. In Washington he walks three miles to his office before 8 a. m., lunches at his desk, goes home after 6 p. m. Summers he climbs Pikes Peak in a bee line...