Word: corns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chemicals. The Manufacturing Chemists Association of the U. S. asked for sufficient tariff on chemical imports to protect U. S. chemists from the European chemical cartel. Representative FIull. Republican, of Illinois, argued specifically for protection on butyl alcohol, made from corn raised by Illinois and other farmers...
...students into residence, in September, 1642, and presiding at the first Commencement, according to the dignified rites of his mother university. This completion of the building was no small feat, for Dunster had not been in office a year when a severe economic crisis struck New England. "Corn would buy nothing", wrote Governor Winthrop. "A cow which cost last year 20 pounds might now be bought for four or five pounds; then, too, many people have gone out of the country, as no man could pay his debts." The more active members of the Board of Overseers returned to England...
...only the taxes but the students' board and tuition were paid in kind--in corn and wheat, cloth and shoes, cows, and other animals including "a goat of the Watertown rate which died," so that the College steward must have conducted a wholesale store...
...congratulation. Federal prohibition authorities, however, saw in the Mills plan no millennium. James M. Doran, chief U. S. prohibiter, disagreed with the major premise concerning diverted alcohol as the source of "98%" of bootleggers' supplies. He said that the chief source of illegal liquor is the distillation of corn sugar. He added that measures advocated by Major Mills are now "routine practices" in the Prohibition Bureau, described the Mills plan as "old stuff, exchanged for good money...
...Corn paper used commercially...