Word: corns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bills about pensions, Indian lands, medals, rural mail boxes, corn borers, the Gila River, military camps, monuments, State relief, bridges, salaries...
...would coast down to the Kansas Cities. Of these there are two. a small one in Kansas, a larger one (383,100 population) across the Kaw in Missouri. They are "the gates to the Southwest," "the continent's pantry doors." Much of the beef, more of the corn and wheat, and 40% of the oil in the U. S., are produced within a day's journey of the Kaw-Missouri confluence. The geographical centre of the U. S. is only 190 miles away near the centre of the northern Kansas boundary. The centre of U. S. population...
...prospective visitors and warned that the local law makes it jail offense to possess one quart of intoxicant. They also warned against conventioneering bootleggers, whose stock-in-trade this year is murderously "cut" and atrociously priced. The alternative suggested was to trust to personal Kansas City hospitality, for corn abounds there and it was from corn that mellow bourbon whisky used to be made...
...Corn, No. 3 yellow, Chicago...
Commerce & Industry are borrowing more money from banks (a healthy trend, economically). New York Federal Reserve Bank last week reported $296,829,000 bills discounted. A year ago they were $118,374,000. However, some of the great difference was borrowed for speculation in wheat, corn, hogs and cotton...