Word: corns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eastern Kansas the corn crop sprouted. Farmers looked for a record-breaking yield. Then, for six long weeks, Kansas baked in a drought. Pastures began to turn brown. Parched cornfields drooped. Worried farmers squinted at the sky. One day last week, across the Middle West clouds swept, rain fell, soaking the thirsty earth with one to five inches of water. A huge 1941 corn crop was made. J. C. Mohler, secretary of the Kansas Board of Agriculture, exclaimed: "The greatest blessing the State has received in ten years...
...migrés-"A large section of the German emigres [have] failed to realize the deep and irrevocable changes that have come over the German people in the course of the last ten years. . . . We have become the 'alien corn...
...place in the South Pacific where we had to get a lot of things-rubber, tin, and so forth and so on, down in the Dutch Indies, the Straits Settlements and Indo-China. And we had to get the Australian surplus of meat and wheat and corn for England...
...this sorry record, the Treasury's corny sales promotion was in part to blame. But now the corn is being weeded out. Dull posters and literature will be pepped up or ditched. The radio campaign (most successful Treasury promotion so far) is using better talent, shorter commercials. By Sept. 15 the Michigan plan will be working in every State. If it works as well nationally as in Michigan, Washington talk of compulsory savings will prove at least premature...
Biggest problem in rural church finance is that farmers have little cash to put in the collection plate. But farmers usually have plenty of cotton, wheat or corn-on-the-hoof-and most of them can be induced to work a few extra hours to raise a bit more to help the church. The Lord's Acre Plan asks churchgoing farmers to till an acre or so, or raise extra livestock, and give the extra cash to the church...