Word: corns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must be protected from wild speculative slumps. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace was summoned to the White House for a heart-to-heart. Board of Trade officials put their heads together in Chicago. Upshot was Government sanction of new rules which fixed minimum prices for grain (wheat, 90? per bu.; corn, 46? per bu.; oats, 35? per bu.; rye, 69?), limited daily fluctuations to 5? for wheat and other grains in proportion...
...person he is by the way he picks up a dish of cold breakfast cereal, carries it out into the yard, dumps it contemptuously into the henyard. Louise falls in love with Guy at a village dance while Simon the hired man (Stuart Erwin) is getting drunk on corn whiskey. For a genre incident-of the kind which have made Stong contributions unique in the current cinema-the best shot in The Stranger's Return is probably the harvesting dinner, with extra leaves in the Storr table, Grandpa Storr grunting at the head of the board and a great...
...Domestic Allotment provision, due to the fact that President Roosevelt had inadvertently tied his own hands in the international field. Money to pay farmers to cut their crop production and thus boost prices was to have been raised by a tax on processors of wheat, cotton, corn, rice, hogs, tobacco and dairy products. To be effective domestically such a tax had to be counterbalanced by special tariff increase. Thus if a 2? per Ib. tax was placed on butter, 2?would have to be added to the regular butter duty to prevent importers from underselling the U. S. market...
...shower, callithumpian, callathumpin'. callathump and cowthump. The serenade includes such noisemakers as tin pans, kettles, washboilers, dinner bells, cowbells horns, gongs, drums, saws, tin cans, shotguns, "horse fiddles" (two rails gratin.tr together), "devil's fiddles" (a plank run through a box), "skonk" (conch) shells and corn-shellers filled with small stones The bride & groom are expected to listen patiently for a bit, then give the cothumpers plenty of cigars, applejack, gin whiskey or beer. If they do not, or if they are definitely disliked by the cowthumpers. the noise goes on. If the couple decline to show themselves...
Copper went last week to /7?a pound, up from a January low of 5?. Even hogs (which started last summer's boom and then dropped it) decided to move together in the right direction. More important than wheat, corn or cattle, hogs provide 12?of each farm dollar...