Word: corns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said the youth: "But, sir, I have no gun. In England we are not allowed to carry them." Despite this unfamiliarity with the American language, some of the boys at Southern camps wind up with thick Southern accents, go hog-wild over orange juice, ice cream, corn pone...
...Corn is Green. Ethel Barrymore in a notable performance as pedagogical Pygmalion to a Welsh miner...
...liquor industry last week turned up as a helper in a critical sector of the munitions business. From 20,000,000 bushels of Government-owned surplus corn, the distillers will run off 40-50,000,000 gallons of ethyl alcohol within the next year...
...inexpensive) changes in their present stills, the distillers can convert the shortage into a surplus. This will cut whiskey production by only 12-15%, not enough to worry barflies (current liquor stocks could last for five years). The Government meanwhile rids itself of some near-useless, near-rotting corn. The transportation squeeze is helped a bit because most distilleries and powder plants are in the same area-Kentucky, Maryland, Virginia...
...Britons, said Wickard, now get only about three eggs per person a month, four ounces of cured pork a week, eight ounces of butter or butter substitutes, half as much animal-protein food as they need. Even with the extra milk, cheese, canned tomatoes, dried beans, fruit, corn and pork that the $1,000,000,000 will supply, Britain will still fight on short rations...