Word: corns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...understood one fact last week: there was hardly any grits to be bought anywhere in the South. With U.S. corn stocks depleted, and price ceilings making it more profitable for farmers to feed their corn to hogs than sell it to gristmills, the gastronomic customs of the South were shaken to their foundations...
...Charleston's famed Citadel, where military-minded young Southerners go to learn soldiering, a tradition of 100 years was broken when no grits was available for breakfast. Vexed South Carolina housewives started a small boom in hand gristmills, scoured the countryside in search of corn...
Said one countryman: "If you want to eat corn, you'd better be a hog." Headlined the Charleston, S.C. News & Courier: "CALAMITY...
...Grits (also called hominy or hominy grits) is a coarsely ground, somewhat glutinous meal made from corn, is eaten with melted butter or hot gravy...
Propaganda. The Economist was not always respected and influential. When James Wilson, an ambitious politician (later Finance Minister to India), founded it, his primary purpose was to propagandize against the British corn laws (regulations on the import of grain) and support the laissez faire movement. He shrewdly mixed some political and business articles in with the propaganda, managed to gather some 3,000 readers, a small profit and a journalistic reputation before he died in 1860, leaving his paper to his six picturesque, strictly Victorian daughters. They and their descendants, apparently endowed with Founder Wilson's zeal and luck...