Word: corns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world's third largest corn refinery closed down last week for lack of corn...
...Pigs v. Corn. Governors Dewey and Schricker were not exchanging mere pleasantries. As every farmer knew, the pig-corn crisis was typical of the entire U.S. food mess...
There might not be a meat shortage, if a substantial number of the nation's nearly 130,000,000 pigs were sent to market. And there would not be a corn shortage, if corn were shipped to refineries instead of being hoarded to feed to the pigs...
Root of the corn-pig crisis is the price ceiling on corn ($1 a bushel) and the price floor on hogs ($13.75 a 100 lb.). By feeding the corn to the hogs, farmers figure they can get the equivalent of $1.35 a bushel for their corn. Last week corn bootleggers roamed the Midwest, buying up corn at above-ceiling prices to sell to hog raisers...
...Administration, with its fixed price ceilings and floors, had got itself into a jam. One proposal: requisitioning the corn now in elevators, at ceiling prices, and throwing it into the market. On this, Food Czar Chester Davis, conferring daily with corn growers, feeders and processors...