Word: corns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manpower. The half-billion acres of fertile U.S. land, where almost any kind of food will grow, make six million farms. Tractors, combines, hybrid corn, better animal breeding-story-book developments-have boosted production 40% above that of World...
...dyke, he would have lost his legal look, and "The Talk of the Town" would have been minus it's one really novel feature. But not even a clean-shaven Coleman could have slowed down the pace of this fast-stepping comedy. Technical errors and a few kernels of corn keep it from the top, but it still ranks high among the year's better pictures...
Last week the Finns dug their potatoes and prepared for the Northland's long and dreary evening. Germany sent occasional shipments of corn to the Finns. It scarcely compensated for the cripples haunting the street corners...
Pagan Nazis still observed the rule: "Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn." French workers were promised good wages in Germany. Their families in France received compensation from the French Government: six million francs a day for the 150,000 workers designated to make up the first contingent. War-risk insurance for these Frenchmen in Germany was also paid by Vichy. French taxpayers were not only footing the bill for German soldiers policing France, but were helping to pay Frenchmen for working German industries...
Families on relief can buy a dollar's worth of orange stamps, good for any food, get free a 50% dividend in blue stamps good only for "surplus" foods. This month the foods on the free list include pancake and whole wheat flour, corn meal and hominy grits, dry beans, potatoes, fresh vegetables, apples-all plentiful but hardly surplus. Also included: eggs-obviously not a surplus commodity to customers who pay 60? to 80? a dozen for them in big cities...