Word: corns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Latest reports from Franconia Notch show that the snow has been extremely wet the past two days, but fresh southwesterly winds are now making the surface into corn snow which should make for faster times...
...time and any odd change available in preventing soil erosion (TIME, Jan. 27). The "amendment" gave him power for two years to pay farmers not only for preventing erosion but for conserving "fertility" by growing soil-conserving crops (e. g., clover) instead of various cash crops (e. g., cotton, corn, wheat) whose price Congress wants to boost. The bill limits the amount that he may spend for this purpose to $500,000,000 a year. By not imposing any taxes to raise this money (taxes are to come later in another bill), the AAA substitute reduced to a minimum...
...impatiently looking for his cut. In Manhattan a small, blond Ultimate Consumer named Edwin Reiskind brought suit "on behalf of myself and all other consumers of agricultural products." This Russian-born left-winger sought to restrain Standard Milling Co., National Biscuit Co., Wheatena Corp., Postum Co., Consolidated Cigar Corp., Corn Products Refining Co. and 19 other companies from "disposing and wasting" any of their refunded tax. Plaintiff Reiskind, a lawyer, conceded that a prorata rebate to all consumers would be impossible, thought that the money should revert to the U. S. Treasury. Meanwhile the Chicago butchers charged that the packers...
...laugh about in the second seeing that you didn't have time to laugh about in the first. Funniest of all, perhaps, is a time-saving device that automatically feeds workers while they work. It is tried out on Charlie, and it runs amuck. It rasps an ear of corn against his teeth, it shoves bolts into his mouth, and it bashes in his face with its automatic wiper. But this choice is just a matter of opinion, and besides, clumsy word accounts fall hopelessly short of Chaplin's elusive mirth. Drop whatever you're doing...
...beautician was operating in all Pekin. In freezing cold union delegates had informed all merchants that if their shops were not locked up by the strike's deadline, their windows would be smashed. Not a shop in Pekin was open after 3 p.m. Six hundred allied workers at Corn Products Refining Co. then voted to walk out. Other workers promised to quit in sympathy...