Word: corns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plight. The White House seemed a long way from John Farmer's withered little acres but he was hopeful. His corn was gone. His well was dry. His pasture was a tinder box. His cows were hungry. His vegetable patch was a mass of brown weeds. His supply of cash was dangerously low. He already owed the county bank more than he could pay this year or next. Typhoid fever had broken out nearby. John Farmer faced a bad winter...
Driving through Virginia to his Rapidan camp for the weekend, President Hoover saw for himself pastures toasted brown, corn drooping dead on the stalk, lean kine herded miles to water. At his camp he discussed relief plans with Secretary of Agriculture Hyde and Vice Chairman James C. Stone of the Federal Farm Board...
Beneath a brazier sun green pastures, fresh corn lands, lush gardens from Virginia to Kansas turned brown and sere. The Potomac, Ohio and Mississippi rivers dwindled to a sluggish standstill. Corn wilted away on stunted stalks. Grass shrivelled up before it could be hayed. Live stock, famished for feed and water, was hustled to slaughter before it died. Fruit and truck rotted. Catastrophe was upon a million farm families...
Rain or Shine (Columbia). For many years in vaudeville and musical shows Joe Cook has been putting over his personal kind of comedy. In this version of an old Broadway revue, now arranged without music to make the wisecracks come closer together, he gives his corn flakes and feed bill monolog, tells about his farm in Texas, introduces a new act about the escape of a gorilla. He is ably assisted and at times equaled by laconic Tom Howard and insanely grinning David Chasen. But the main amusement is by Cook and enough people like it to permit its classification...
...Corn Products Refining...