Word: corns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...illustrate. I understand the average corn-hog benefit payment in Iowa is under $400. But I know, for example, about one corn-hog contract in another State where the beneficiary was paid $219,825 in two years for not raising 14,587 hogs on 445 acres...
...Thanksgiving Day, 1934, the prosecution asserted, Captain Fleischer "did feloniously embezzle by fraudulently converting to his own use two bottles of stuffed olives (50?), two bottles of sweet pickles (20?), two cans of crabmeat (96?), two turkeys ($4.80), two cans of cranberry sauce (48?), peas, corn and beans ($3.06), candy ($2), pies and cakes ($4.68)," all of which rightfully belonged in the larder of the U. S. Army. Last July 3, he was further accused of raiding the Army's icebox for two Army chickens (84?), two Army tenderloins of beef (96?), two slabs of Army cheese (22?), three...
...Memphis last week trooped cotton farmers. To Chicago on the same day trooped corn & wheat farmers. Their object was to find out just what AAA was going to make them do to share in the $400,000,000 to $500,000,000 annual bounty under the new Soil Conservation Act. To Memphis went Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, to Chicago Assistant Secretary Milburn Lincoln Wilson, to explain things: The Government meant to take 30,000,000 out of 300,000,000 acres normally devoted to soil-depleting crops (cotton, corn, wheat) and put them into soil-conserving crops (alfalfa, soya beans...
...Mary Cassatt. When his friend Seurat invented a technique of painting with tiny blobs of pure color, Camille Pissarro tried that too. In that manner is possibly the most effective canvas in last week's exhibition-the Dieppe railway train disappearing into a green forest beyond a yellow corn field...
...afternoon run, with much of the morning's ice changed to corn snow, the members of the Crimson team came in within two seconds of one another, a very unusual occurrence. Emerson was first with a time of 3 minutes, 5 seconds fiat, Shaw arrived in second place with 3 minutes, 5.2 seconds, and Carter was third, getting home in 3 minutes, 7 seconds...