Word: corns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pekin sits on the Illinois River ten miles below Peoria in the heart of the corn belt. Corn Products Refining Co. uses the corn to make Karo Syrup. The American Distilling Co. uses it to make Old Colony Gin. The American Distilling Co. employes are organized into a company union and an American Federation of Labor union. Last August an A. F. of L. man, employed as an engineer, was discharged for letting a vat of mash boil over. Fellow unionists protested. The man was rehired to haul ashes. This pretext led to a union v. union strike, which...
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Sirs: I appreciated immensely "Whoa-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho," and have found ample opportunity to quote the impressions of "Swing." However, there is another term that eludes definition-''Corn." Being a pseudo-musician, I have glibly and authoritatively used it without a quaver. But at last one malicious person demanded a translation, and I was pretty well stopped. . . . STEVE HARRISON...
When a musician who is not "hot" tries to play as if he were, his music is "corn...
...Wheat & Corn reacted a few cents last week but grain surpluses are small. Flour was cut as much as $1.38 per bbl. Some bakers cut the price of bread 1? per loaf. In addition to having fewer taxes to absorb, biscuit bakers and packaged food concerns will probably gain from bigger volume at lower prices. Last year their attempts to pass the tax on to the consumers made many customers so mad that they organized "buyers' strikes." Starting as a protest against the high price of meat, these strikes were ultimately directed against nearly all high-priced groceries. Last...