Word: corns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Glascock County, cotton farmers who were short of help offered cotton pickers in Warren County 75? a 100 lb., plus a drink of corn whisky morning and evening. Following this, farmers in Warren County, where pickers were getting 40? a 100 lb. and no drinks, took shotguns to their fields. Said Warrenton's Sheriff, G. P. Hogan...
...country. In theory bumper crops sold at fair prices provide the huge farming class with such extensive buying power that all commerce benefits. How bumper are crops was last week summarized by revised estimates of the Department of Agriculture, indicating that total value for three major crops of corn, wheat and cotton will be $4,500,000,000, largest since 1930. Total farm income from the sale of all crops plus payments by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration will total up to nearly $9,000,000,000. largest since 1929's $10,479,000,000, and more than a billion...
...Corn. Present estimate for this year's corn crop is 2,549,000,000 bu.-109,000,000 bu. less than estimated a month ago but a billion more than last year. At present prices of 63? a bushel for December corn in Chicago, the crop is worth about $1,606,000,000. Last week, with this huge harvest due to begin pouring on the market about Oct. 1, by a freak of commerce the corn futures market on the Chicago Board of Trade was threatened by the tightest "natural squeeze" or corn shortage in years. This...
...similar situation occurred last July when potent Cargill Grain Co. held the long interest, and potent Farmers National Grain Corp. the short. At the last minute Farmers suddenly pulled 500,000 bu. of previously invisible corn out of the hat, gave Cargill a severe drubbing as the price fell 27?. Last week brokers suspected that Cargill was out to get even. However, there was little chance that a serious squeeze would materialize, for the Secretary of Agriculture has power to extend trading to prevent such things. Last week the Commodity Exchange Administration was visibly disturbed, uttered warnings about manipulation...
...this learning in the brain, and never in the blood was ended." In this mood even Maurice provoked "a tender, soft, sorry feeling"-though she did not relax her determination to kick him out. To make his going easier (for herself), she and Tony absented themselves at a Corn Dance. On their return Tony said, "I comin' here to this tepee tonight, when darkness here. That be right?" "And it was right," says 58-year-old Mabel Dodge, with the pat finality of a romantic novel and a rejuvenated grandmother who claims that her heart has been missing beats...