Word: corns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Domestic Allotment, as passed by the House, also included peanuts (by one vote), rice and butter fat, thereby upsetting the "exportable surplus" theory. Efforts to put corn, blackstrap molasses, flaxseed and goats into H. R. 13,991 were beaten. Instead of leaving enforcement to each community the bill turned over the whole job to the Secretary of Agriculture and a swarm of Federal Agents whose duty it would be to watch the doings on each & every one of the 6,300,000 U. S. farms. Bounties would not be apportioned by States and then counties, but would be paid...
...have a popcorn machine, you know how fast the machine converts popcorn to fluffy balls. If you measure the pile of popped corn, you know how long the machine has been working, if it has been operated at a constant rate of production."-Tufts' Alfred Church Lane. With many such "ifs" Professor Lane estimates the present age of uraninite as 1,070,000,000 years, of pitchblende as 1,300,000,000 years.* From those two estimates he sets the age of the Earth at between two and three billion years...
...Department of Commerce had waived its regulation against throwing things from airplanes in flight. Paterson's Wright Aeronautical Corp. had lent a plane and crack pilot. Three times Dr. Gootenberg soared up from Paterson, flew low over inaccessible, snow-covered woodlands, pelting down 750 bags filled with corn, wheat, millet, rye. Consolidated Sportsmen was also busy last week adding 75 bird self-feeders to the 125 it has already placed in remote New Jersey swamps and forests...
Alarmed at the plight of U. S. birds whose food supply has been buried under deep snow, Audubon Society officials recently went to the Post Office Department with an idea. Last week First Assistant Postmaster General Arch Coleman announced that bird-lovers may mail cracked corn and small grain, to be scattered by rural mail carriers along their routes. Sufficient address: "Mr. & Mrs. Bird...
...Most barmen use hot water, with a double hooker of rye, bourbon or corn. Scotch is eschewed as non-indigenous...