Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spring, marching swiftly north across the land last week, found teams hitched to harrows and fields being broken, plow horses streaking the countryside with new furrows, tractors barking and chattering with lusty strength. Corn was about to go into the fat black acres of Illinois and Iowa. South Carolinians had their cotton planted; their February oats already sprouting. Seed beds for tobacco were being prepared as far north as Connecticut. Spring wheat was being sowed in Kansas now that the thaw had come & gone. Sows had littered in Iowa. John Farmer was starting his 1933 crops on the same haphazard...
...whose none-too-husky shoulders falls the job of administering the enormous powers buried deep in the Roosevelt farm bill. In his diffident way he had already given the Senate committee his views on this measure, designed to restore farm purchasing power by artificially raising the prices of cotton, corn, wheat, tobacco, rice, hogs, sheep, cattle and dairy products to pre-War parity with industry.* Nothing short of the broadest and most flexible authority, he had testified, would suffice to solve the farm problem. After such a sweeping grant it was up to Congress and the country to trust...
Texas' Marvin Jones, chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture, refused to sponsor the Administration's measure because he objected to some of its price-raising machinery for wheat, cotton, tobacco, corn, rice, hogs, cattle, sheep, milk and milk products. "But," said he, "while this war is on, I'm going to follow the President. I don't think the bill can make things worse. God knows we all hope it will make them better...
...consumed (1914-1916 average) about: 42,000,000 Ib. of hops; 60,000,000 bu. of barley; 18,000,000 bu. of corn. C. It had invested (1914) about 42,000,000 in plant and equipment...
...hops* (80% of the 1932 crop), 30,000,000 bu. of barley† (10% of the 1932 crop) and 10,000 bu. of corn (about ⅓% of the 1932 crop). But home brew, illegal brew, and ½% beer is already using part of these amounts. About 6,000,000 Ib. of hops were used for other than brewing in pre-Prohibition days. Assuming that this amount still holds, then the beer business may be said to be already operating at about 45% of its pre-Prohibition capacity. If it is going to operate at 50% the demand for raw materials...