Word: corns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...combatants. The effects began soon after my microphone was installed between a haystack and a cornfield and with them came incessant shot & shell. The rapidly shifting fighting front had placed my haystack in direct line of rebel fire. Bullets sang overhead, pished into the haystack, and swished through the corn. It was impossible to move. Then I thought of TIME. For six hours, with an occasional break to survey fighting, fix my glasses on a bombing plane, or consult the French radio operator established behind the nearby farmhouse, I absorbed the Aug. 24 issue, including all ads (actual cover...
...previous radio heart-to-hearts when he turned to re-employment and his favorite theme of economic freedom. Said he: "My friends!* I have been on a journey of husbandry. . . . I saw drought devastation in nine states. I talked with families who had lost their wheat crop, lost their corn crop, lost their livestock, lost the water in their well, lost their garden and come through to the end of the summer without one dollar of cash resources, facing the winter without feed or food-facing a planting season without seed to put in the ground...
...precedent, advertising companies began negotiations with other Eastern colleges which maintain pretentious football teams. Atlantic Refining announced that it had too signed up Temple, Duke, the University of Virginia, Cornell University, Holy Cross, Franklin and Marshall, and hoped to get more. University of Michigan signed with Kellogg Co. (corn flakes). Princeton and Harvard insisted they were not in the market for radio sponsors...
...riproaring rallies and barbecues the candidates have poured abuse on each other, whipped up passions and prejudices, kept the State in a frenzy of excitement. Farmers wearing red suspenders, the Talmadge trademark, turned out by hundreds for the Governor's barbecues of free pork, lamb, beef, chicken and "corn likker." Aside from the major matter of personalities, the chief issue was the New Deal, of which young Senator Russell is a stanch supporter...
Time works wonders and today Minnesota is thriving on its wheat and corn and is known the world over for its fine flour though corn...