Word: corns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...loaves of bread into the current. As the loaves float down to him, Huck fishes them in, takes out the plugs, shakes dabs of quicksilver out of the insides and eats them. "It was 'baker's bread'-what the quality eat; none of your low-down corn-pone." Huck is joined by Tom and Joe and together they speculate on how Bill Turner, drowned the summer before, was found by loaded loaves. Tom says its not so much the bread that found the body, or the quicksilver either, but some incantations that were said over them...
Specifically, the U. S. corn crop this year will be slightly less than last, oats less, potatoes more, hay less, wheat considerably more. The wheat crop will exceed 840,000,000 bu., whereas last season...
...lifelong vegetarian, stocky, muscular, soft-voiced, with a shock of greying hair and a flowing Windsor necktie, Mr. Kellogg has been an outdoor man all his days. On his valley ranch in California he grows corn twelve feet high, according to his less skillful neighbors, by singing...
Rubber. An international group of researchers agreed that synthetic rubber is not yet. The report of Dr. Richard Weilfi of Germany was most significant: during the War, Germany needed rubber badly, tried many formulas including one that starts from starch. Potatoes and corn were too scarce for food to permit using this one. Another formula, in coal and lime, was followed to produce 2,350 tons of synthetic rubber. But the product cost five dollars a pound; automobile tires made of it wore out after 1,500 miles; for inner tubes it was useless...
...Major General C. P. Summerall. Before them marched 1,600 citizen soldiers. Then Mr. Coolidge proceeded to inspect the camp in general and the mess hall in particular. The mess sergeant gave him the day's menu: fresh fruit, ham and eggs, roast beef, baked potatoes, string beans, corn on the cob, raisin bread, ice cream. The President pondered, smiled, said: "Well, they can't famish on that." The punctual limousine appeared, started toward White Pine Camp.... Suddenly, Presidential Chauffeur Robinson jammed on his brakes. From the car leapt Richard Jervis of the U. S. Secret Service...