Word: corns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foodstuffs are rationed, even where they are grown. Southern Italians used to despise northerners as "mangioni di polenta" (eaters of polenta, a staple made of corn meal flour). Now southerners eat polenta instead of bread. Good polenta is so thick it is cut with a string. Today's polenta is so thin it can be poured. Wine can still be had, but it is not plentiful...
Alcohol. The present demand for grain alcohol is a great problem for chemurgists. Production in 1943 will amount to 530 million gallons, more than five times the prewar figure. With imports of molasses cut off by the lack of tankers, corn is the major source. The entire production would require 200 million bushels of corn a year. At that rate the Commodity Credit Corp. cannot long continue to supply the corn, and farmers want to use their excess stock to feed the 13 million increase in the U.S. pig population. Again munitions compete with food...
Turning to the 1¼-billion-bushel wheat surplus as a source of alcohol is no remedy now. There are unsolved technical difficulties in the use of wheat: for instance, unlike corn, wheat does not now provide a valuable cattle feed as a by-product of its fermentation. WPB is studying the possibility of making alcohol from waste wood and even from waste sulfite liquor from paper mills. Farmers are begging to be relieved of the alcohol and rubber burdens,* praying for petroleum rubber to make its appearance, a complete reversal of their insistence a year ago on being included...
...miracle: despite their troubles, despite bureaucrats, hell & high water, farmers will plant 279,000,000 acres-10,000,000 more than last year. They will plant 20% more peas and beans (good meat substitutes), 10% more soybeans, 21% more peanuts and flaxseed for oils, 14% more potatoes, 6% more corn to fatten their cattle and pigs. Food Administrator Claude Wickard had never dared hope for such figures. Nor had the nation...
...previously turned down other high Government posts: McKinley offered him the First Assistant Postmaster Generalship, Taft wanted to make him Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Harding offered him the Navy Secretaryship, Coolidge wanted him either as Secretary of Agriculture or Ambassador to Britain. In 1928 Lowden enjoyed a small corn-belt boom as independent candidate for the Presidential nomination; failing that, he retired to work his Illinois farm on the Rock River, occasionally received political bigwigs who came to him for advice...