Word: corns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Nov. 1, I read of the corn crop, "Last year's abnormally short crop of 1,500,000,000 bu. was nearly a billion bushels below average," from which statement I judge that the average yield is approximately 2,500,000,000 bushels. Right? I read on, "This year the estimated crop is a bumper 2,500,000,000 bu. . . ." and I am perplexed. Is this year's crop an average crop or a bumper crop? It can't be both at the same time...
...average corn crop 1900-1936 was approximately 2,500,000,000 bu. Under the restricted acreage of AAA and its successor, the Soil Conservation Act, 2,500,000,000 bu. is also a bumper crop...
...shallow tanks of nutrient solution, Dr. Gericke has grown tomatoes, potatoes, corn, beans, gladioli, begonias, dozens of other plants and vegetables-free from drought, disease, insects, floods, erosion (TIME, March 1). In a tank of 1,100 of an acre area he grew 1,226 Ib. of lush red tomatoes. His giant tobacco plants are especially impressive (see cut). From 25 sq. ft. of water he got 100 cantaloupes, declared this to be 20 times the yield expected from soil. Pushing against the roof of his greenhouse, with its massive roots in water, is an 18-ft. banana plant...
...French Revolution, most Oregonian faculty and students had rushed pell-mell from their classes to repulse the invaders. At the law school an Oregonian turned a fire hose on the Staters. In Eleventh Street, a State car stalled. One of its occupants began to throw ears of corn at the Oregonians. In a flash the Oregonians hauled him and his three companions out of the car and tossed them into the chilly millrace running by the campus. The Oregonians then started roaring through the town to do the same to the rest of the Staters...
...course, old before their time. Upon their arrival in Cambridge Town they rapidly become steeped in the notorious Harvard haughtiness--they never forget that they are the sons of the oldest and richest university in these almost United States. They forget that they were raised on corn bread and pot likker in East Lip, Ark., and go Beacon Street with almost incredible rapidity--usually because they are nearly all put on the Boston deb lists. A youth who has been at Harvard a few months Knows All, because he can toss off Ultimate on the great names and minds...