Word: corns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corn, a humble U. S. crop that usually stays on the farm to feed hogs, cattle and chickens, had its day last week. What had been expected to be one of the greatest corn yields in history had shriveled under Drought...
...normal: 2,500,000,000), smallest since 1881. Buyers scouring the country for corn were finding that farmers were not selling, needed far more feed than they had grown. Husking bees had been postponed for want of ears to husk. And in the Chicago grain pit, traders suddenly realized that outstanding sales of corn for September delivery were double the supply in terminal grain elevators. Suddenly corn bounced up 3⅞? per bu., nearly the full 4? limit allowed by the Chicago Board of Trade...
...great corn states of Iowa and Illinois, the temperature rose to 115° and in the grain pit corn kept pace, next day mounting a full 4? to $1.16 a bu. This put democratic corn ahead of aristocratic wheat ($1.14 a bushel) for the first time in six years. Next day September-delivery corn rose 3!^ to $1.igf, a price unequaled since the great days when War-starved Europe bought all the U. S. grain it could get. and cash corn sold...
Meanwhile corn truckers were paying farmers better than $1 a bushel at the farm and spot corn in Chicago was bringing as much...
...Since corn is the staple hog diet, "corn on the hoof" (i.e., hogs) last week rose too. Headlines read: RETURN OF THE $12 HOG. As corn passed wheat, it became too dear to feed hogs, whose diet was thereupon switched to wheat, which is a better meat-builder, anyway...