Word: corns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Food Administrator Chester C. Davis made a three-pronged attack on the price imbalances which have worsened the meat shortage. He lifted by 5? the feed-corn ceiling, which had practically paralyzed the market, in order to start corn moving to cattle growers again. He raised the floor price of hogs from $13.25 to $13.75 to guarantee hog growers a fair return. And for the benefit of packers and the public, he got ready to slap a $14.50 ceiling on live hogs, recently selling...
...engineers, with their drills and tripods, came to New Mexico's age-encrusted Pueblo of San Felipe. They pointed to the sun-baked ceremonial plaza, place of the Corn Dance, where not even an Indian is permitted to drive his wagon. They pointed to the sacred kiva, where the Indians hold their secret councils...
...first half of the show, laid in a canteen, moves fast with sentiment, boogie-woogie, corn with butter and salt, corn without them, a male cancan, a brass-hat quartet, which warbles...
...Reason: The ceiling price for corn is $1.02 a bushel, but when converted to pork a bushel of corn brings $1.25 to $1.50. Postwar note: the price of corn must be below 35? a bushel if alcohol is to be made from it at the normal prewar price of 20? a gallon...
...rise in the cost of living mainly on "our failure to bring food costs under control." The Bankhead bill, he declared, would compound that failure. "Under it ... the price of sugar would rise 1½? a pound, the price of bread might go up ? a loaf. . . . The price of corn could rise almost 10% which . . . would certainly call forth a demand for higher prices for hogs and livestock, poultry, eggs, milk. . . . These price increases . . . might swell the cost of living more than...