Word: corns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soft pink bloom of magnolia, the white tracery of "breath-of-spring" shrubs, the yellow islands of jonquils in deep green grass. Hopeful fishermen ringed Atlanta's Piedmont Park Lake; but they never caught anything. On farms, fresh-turned furrows lay brick-red in the sun; farmers planting corn, cotton and peanuts shouted at their mules...
Alcohol & Allies make the sugar difficulty worse. At least 800,000 tons of our Cuban sugar is now earmarked for alcohol. The grain bloc in Congress is howling for alcohol from corn or wheat instead-though that bloc also objects to letting Commodity Credit Corp. sell its grain stocks below parity (which makes grain alcohol cost more than sugar alcohol). This proposal runs smack into trouble from the industrial alcohol industry because only 40% of the whiskey distillers are equipped to make 190-proof alcohol. The other 60% can make only 140-proof, which would then have to be raised...
...opening night, in a house filled with lowbrows in quest of the old corn, it was Caviartist Draper who stopped the show...
...from starch. But in spite of our "vast and untouched" resources it is the United States and not the Axis which feels the pinch. We have been depending mainly on sugar as the source of the mow scarce starch, gathering only one per cent of the possible yield from corn. An attempt not so long ago to industrialize potato starch was ruined by foreign competition which our neighborly State Department encouraged. Germany, on the other hand, has stocked up with the stuff by barter, and Japan and the Dutch East Indies have plenty...
...Many dental researchers are sure that this excessive proportion of sugar accounts for the fact that caries (tooth decay) is the commonest U.S. disease. Fruit can satisfy the craving for something sweet, and the chemistry of the saliva and the digestive juices automatically convert the starch of bread, potatoes, corn, etc. to the sugars the body needs...