Word: corns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might sensibly suggest that a discussion of the matter be relegated to Oxford, "the home of lost causes. And his proposal would undoubtedly find a host of supporters when it became generally known that a book could be suppressed under this bill for "a description of a man eating corn beef and cabbage with his fingers...
...That Boss Murphy's influence with a Standard Oil subsidiary?the Corn Products Company?did enable his partner?(Hartog) to buy glucose from that concern by an evasion...
...That Boss Murphy's influence with the Standard Oil subsidiary?the Corn Products Co.?was sufficient to stop the sale of glucose to Hartog when Hartog balked at demands for another 'financial arrangement...
...Generating cycles" are cycles which originate in non-economic causes, such as weather. "Derived cycles" are the fluctuations in prices and prosperity which follow them. The farms supply 81.2% of all raw materials used in manufactures. Six major crops-corn, wheat, oats, hay, cotton, potatoes (70.8% of all farm products)-show the 8-year cycle. So do coal and iron (13.4% of raw materials are mined), lagging slightly behind the generating cycle of crop production. Maximum and minimum rainfall definitely occurs in a periodicity of eight years, both in Europe and America. All these concurrent cycles have been observed...
...Corn burned for fuel in Kansas, ships idle, thousands starving in Europe, is not this proof of a certain insanity in the world...