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Word: corns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal can successfully develop tobacco control by means of the state restriction system, and if it can get another four-year term in Washington, conceivably this tobacco technique will be extended until it includes such major crops as cotton, wheat and corn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Tobacco Technique | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

Explosive from Corn, Professor Edward Bartow, president of the American Chemical Society, has 25 lb. of inositol which he keeps locked in a safe at University of Iowa. Inositol is an alcohol which occurs exiguously in the seeds of certain plants. Treated with nitric acid it forms a solid substance about twice as explosive as dynamite. Inositol has been so difficult to extract that only about 5 lb. are produced annually and the price is $500 per lb. Professor Bartow and his able associate, Dr. W. W. Walker, found a way to extract inositol from the water in which corn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Convening Chemists | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

...Committee's roster of those giving $5,000 to $10,000 each to the Crusaders and $10,000 to $15,000 each to the Liberty League included Broker Edward F. Hutton, President George Monroe Moffett of Corn Products Refining, President John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mutual Friends | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

...acre farm, how his Plattsburg teachers had dismissed it as "only fair," how at first he did not believe his good fortune until Eddie Cantor confirmed the news on the air. To newshawks he drawled: "I'm going to the Empire State, to see how much corn the big silo will hold." Two nights later Comedian Cantor proudly produced Lloyd on his Pebeco broadcast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Peace Piece | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

...rays, diatherms, sunlamps), corsets, books. Since the establishment of a Committee on Foods, which under Dr. Fishbein's control passes on the health claims of food processors, food advertising in the Journal mounted. Current users of full pages include General Foods (Postum, Post's Whole Bran), Corn Products (Karo Syrup), Knox Sparkling Gelatine, Best Foods (Nucoa Oleomargarine), Dole Hawaiian Pineapple Juice. Chevrolet and Buick are the only motor cars bidding for doctors' business. By advertisements, demonstrations at medical meetings and by packages sent to doctors' offices, Philip Morris has almost succeeded in identifying its brand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Medicine's Journal | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

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