Word: corns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...horse called Walter Gay, receiving 100 to 8 odds. They were later proved wise because Walter Gay came in second. In Belfast, Ireland was circulated a message which nobody could trace to its source: "Trigo will do the Trigo is Irish-reared, Irish-owned (Mr. William Barnett, corn-broker) Many Belfastians bet on Trigo, odds: 33 to 1. They too were proved wise. Trigo...
...casting tackle he has caught muskrats, beavers, porcupines, coons, gophers, gulls, woodpeckers, quail, loons, bitterns, mud-hens. Because game-fish judge bait principally by sight rather than smell, he has cast an onion and caught a fish. He has caught bass with carrots, parsnips, beets, frankfurters, potatoes, corn-on-cob, string beans, cherries...
...wheat recovery was accompanied by rises in corn, oats and rye. It also aided the Manhattan stock market, which opened strong in a day of light trading. As far as permanent relief of the wheat situation was concerned, however, it was felt that only a major crop scare in spring wheat would result in continued rising prices. It has been estimated that there will be a world carry-over of 500 million bushels on July...
...when, a prohibitive duty is placed on blackstrap, alcohol makers say they will turn then, not to corn but to synthetic alcohol, now developed to a point where only the cheapness of blackstrap delays its perfection...
...effect upon it, were ready to believe that the retail buyer would not see much change in his meat and grocery bills. Operations between producer and consumer by the much-maligned Middle-Man would, experts explained, serve as a buffer between farm prices and store prices. Illustration: The corn duty raise of 10¢ per bushel would affect corn products (flakes, syrup, oil, etc.) by only a fraction of ordinary market fluctuations in corn, which sometimes are as much as 50¢ per bushel in a season without altering retail prices...