Word: corns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best supply line that the Greeks have had in the last months has been a little Turkish steamer, the Kurtulus, which sailed weekly from Istanbul to Peiraeus with wheat, corn, vegetables, dried fruits and a few medicines. A fortnight ago the Kurtulus struck a reef just off the Turkish coast and sank...
...Parity is the price at which a bushel of wheat or corn, or a given amount of other farm produce, buys as much (in factory goods, taxes, etc.) as it did in the farmer's prosperous 1909-14 period...
...January 1942 the U.S. has its greatest supply of food in all history. A two-year store of wheat lies heavy in the big concrete granaries of Chicago and Minneapolis, in the steel bins, like sawed-off oil tanks, which dot the Midwestern countryside. Rude, slatted corn cribs groan from overloading as well as frost: the U.S. has enough corn for 18 months...
...sows will farrow in the spring, farmers have begun to think about the hog shelters they will have to slap together, of boards in the shape of inverted Vs or lean-tos thrown against fence corners. Everywhere barns are piled high with hay, oats, alfalfa and corn to feed the new crop of pigs and calves...
...Queens) apparently spent a million or so dollars trying to repeat his former success in turning Marlene Dietrich into the screen's No. 1 siren (Blue Angel, Morocco, etc.). He succeeds merely in making Gesture an unexciting series of close-ups of Miss Tierney, a nice, pretty, corn-fed American girl of 21, who is too young and inexperienced for her part...