Word: corns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conversion of farm surplus products as wheat, corn, rye, rice, potatoes, beets, grapes, apples, peaches, molasses, etc. into denatured alcohol to replace a very small percentage, say not more than 5%, of gasoline or motor fuel...
...First Great Name to open last week's hearing was Bernard Mannes Baruch. His advice: "Balance the Budget. Tax everybody for everything. Take hungry men off the world's pavements." He proposed the following farm relief plan: Let the Government allot production quotas on corn, cotton, wheat and tobacco and then lease the farm land thus left idle at an average of $3 per acre per year, thereby compensating the producer for accepting his quota; let the Government collect a processing tax not upon individual products but upon all agricultural commodities to raise the $200,000,000 necessary...
Wilbur--"That's Gratitude." The perennial revival of Frank Craven's whimsical comedy of farm life in the Land of the Fall Corn...
...live in the ugly, Victorian Chancellor's House on the campus proper, on University Heights overlooking the Harlem River. Here, doubtless, he will play badminton, at which he excels, and be accessible and agreeable to all who visit him. He will find his students far different from the corn-fed stalwarts of Illinois, the more so as he goes southward among N. Y. U.'s five scattered major centres. On the Heights there are: fraternity houses and dormitories; a genial campus policeman named John Quigley who was a fast friend of the late Sir Thomas Lipton; the famed...
...Richard Grant White (father of Stanford White who designed most of the N. Y. U. buildings on the Heights) and many another pioneer Greenwich Villager. Today the Washington Square College is N. Y. U.'s third largest division, with more than 6,600 students, even less clean and corn-fed than the students on the Heights...