Word: corns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roaring at city-bred Benny and staring at well-built Ann Sheridan; his antique-loving wife, if you can stand several lengthy reels of people falling through roofs and down wells, go over and get a jump on those blue books blues. But if you regard slapstick as pure corn, and rug-eating dogs and thunderstorms in rickety houses as just too far-fetched, don't bother yourself with this feature...
About such developments are U.S. farmers reading these winter nights. And with reason: here might well be the shape of things to come, a key to post-war stability better than any program out of Washing ton, far better than habit-forming reliance on wheat-corn-cotton...
...ordinary variety that fell into disfavor because it was not winter hardy. A Canadian wild rye, new as a forage crop, promises heavier yields than the common meadow grass. Flax, a minor crop until 1942, is getting a tremendous boost from the introduction of machines to handle it. Hybrid corn, no newcomer in the Middle-west, is being improved for use all through the U.S. ; this year it has extra importance because it has all but crowded out open-pollinated corn in the corn belt...
Japanese battery suddenly blinked out -whether from prudence or from our fire we could not tell. Stout had shifted the nose gun to the side panel. Empty cartridge cases were flying about like corn in a popper. "This is the most fun I get out of a raid," Stout yelled...
When Agriculture Secretary Claude Wickard got his new powers over food last week, he was traveling up & down the country trying to whip up enthusiasm for his 1943 production goals* without much success. Barring a miracle, Claude Wickard's fellow farmers (he raises corn and hogs in Indiana) did not see how they could keep production steady, much less increase...