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Word: corns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reproach among hogs to be a bit of a swine and the influence of the Corn-Hog money dispensation reflects itself very clearly in retail trade which points upward for the next several weeks. Despite a sharp decline in grain prices caused by a drop in sterling and the favorable crop reports in Canada and the Argentine, farm stocks have been very buoyant, which indicates that fodder for the farmer from the Government silo is as efficacious as high prices for his products...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMONG THE WOLVES | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

...large denominations, Manager Lyle wrote on the margin of the note he had just received the license number of the Dodge sedan: 4U-13-41. Next day he gave the bill to an employe named John Lyons, told him to take it to a nearby branch of the Corn Exchange Bank, see if it was genuine. Lyons was told it was. Three days later the bank turned the bill over to the New York office of the Department of Justice as one of the 4,750 gold and silver certificates passed through an opening in the hedge of a Bronx...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 4U-13-41 | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

...House of Anheuser-Busch today stands for many things besides beer. Founder Adolphus' son August Busch managed to pay small dividends pretty regularly through the dry years by making near-beer, yeast, malt and corn syrups, truck bodies, cabinets, Bevo, ice-cream, ginger ale, Diesel engines for U. S. submarines. Other interests include a local coal company, the Hotel Adolphus in Dallas, Tex. and the tiny St. Louis & O'Fallon Ry. whose valuation case in the Supreme Court made railroad history. August Busch died by his own hand two months after Repeal (TIME, Feb. 19). Adolphus Busch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Corporations | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

...Liquor Problem, completed a nine-month survey of the influence of liquor in the U. S. His findings: "Localities which are regarded as dry are invariably wet. Take, for instance, Charlotte, N. C. . . . open saloons and the most awful whiskey I have ever tasted. They make it out of corn. Three drinks of it will make a man climb trees. And Kansas City? Ah, Kansas City! I have seen the streets of Paris at their best or worst, but they are nothing like the streets of Kansas City. If you want to have a good time, go to Kansas City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 1, 1934 | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

THANK YOUR STORY AUG. 27 ISSUE CONCERNING TUSCARORA COURIERS BUNYON DERBY OLD FORT NIAGARA TO WHITE HOUSE STOP MY PRESS AGENT HEARTBROKEN HOWEVER THAT YOU . . . STATED THAT THREE GRAINS OF CORN INVITATION FOR GREAT WHITE FATHER WAS TO INDIAN PEACE POW-WOW STOP INVITATION WAS TO FOUR NATION CELEBRATION AT NIAGARA SEPT. 3 TO 6 IN WHICH BRITAIN, FRANCE, CANADA. U. S. ARE OFFICIALLY TO COMMEMORATE TWO CENTURIES OF WAR MORE THAN CENTURY OF PEACE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Letters, Sep. 3, 1934 | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

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