Word: corns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Singleton of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, by pollinating corn from three different strains, grew ears with alternating rows of red, white & blue kernels...
...Corn Products Refining, world's biggest corn grinder (Argo starches, Karo corn syrup, Mazola oil), reported a nine-month net of $8,339,192, compared to $5,373,070 for the first three quarters...
...told how he & friends killed 220 different animals in Africa last winter to investigate their adrenal glands. Because the lion's adrenals weighed 1/11,,000th of its total weight, Surgeon Crile declared that its "sympathetic complex" made the lion the "most volatile of beasts." Her frizzy hair dyed corn-yellow, her blue eyes fading and weak, Eva Tanguay 58, famed oldtime vaudeville singer (I Don't Care!) was found hobbling around on a crutch in her bleak Hollywood cottage. "Arthritis," she explained to a newshawk. "First I became blind. . . . Now my eyes are better, and my knee...
...diet limited to soybeans is not fed to livestock because it makes them too fat. But farmers can feed them the meal left over after the oil has been extracted. Silage made from soy plants mixed with cornstalks produces more milk, more meat than straight corn silage. For overworked soil, nitrogenous soy plants are a good builder-up. A green crop of them plowed under will often increase the yield of wheat 6 bu. per acre...
...copies of an issue in which a spade was called a spade with regard to the King and Mrs. Simpson "the Most Envied Woman in the British Empire." Simultaneously suburbanites taking their evening trains home from Manhattan looked up to see among placard advertisements of chewing gum and corn cures a blurb reading "THE YANKEE AT KING EDWARD'S COURT" This sold at 15? each some 100,000 copies of the new New York Woman in which a spade was called a shovel thus: "While the outcome, no doubt, will be a victory for the Throne, the King, quite...