Word: corns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Corn Products Refining Co. ("Argo" and "Duryea" starch, "Karo" corn syrup, "Mazola" salad & cooking oil)-$11,905,289. Previous year...
...manufacturer of microscopes found by a survey that the farmers of the country could be sold small inexpensive microscopes. They could use them in detecting what sort of bug was eating cabbage leaves and what in the soil was deterring the growth of corn, wheat or other crops. In fact, nearly a hundred ways were found for the practical use of the microscope on the farm. Accordingly, this manufacturer's biggest market for microscopes has been developed among the farmers of the country...
...invented forty years ago by a French nobleman, Count de Chardonnet. Practically any cellulose substance can be transformed into it,-cotton linters (tiny shreds of cotton fibre formerly wasted), wood pulp, corn stalks, straw...
Died. Watson Franklin Blair, 74, retired Chicago capitalist, onetime director of the Corn Exchange National Bank, Deputy Governor since 1921 of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, director of the Illinois Merchants Trust Co.; of pneumonia; in Greenwich, Conn...
Ioway, Ioway, that's where the tall corn grows...