Word: corns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Known as one of St. Louis' ablest attorneys, Hay is a big, heavy-set man with a black mustache, a good showman who loves "fightin' and speakin','' a classic corn-country orator who began making speeches at the age of eleven on the Ozark farm where he was born...
...farm people who participate in the nation's No. 1 industry will be told of the international emergency. They will be advised to change their crop plans from the five great domestic basic crops-cotton, wheat, corn, tobacco, rice -over to the produce the world needs more desperately-dairy products (milk, eggs, butter, cheese), pork (and lard), beef, fruits, vegetables. They will not be told that they are entering the first phase of the most drastic change in U.S. farm economy since the invention of the harvester...
...July 1933 the corn-hog problem was a big chunk of the whole farm problem. Wickard became a member of a committee representing the corn-hog States, talked so earnestly in Des Moines that Al G. Black, then head of the Department's corn-hog section, was impressed. He asked Wickard to come to work in Washington...
This was a stunner to Claude Wickard. He knew what it was to walk all day behind a plow pulled by a restless team; to pick corn with cold fingers and an aching back, to spread manure by hand, to shock wheat all day under a hot sun. He knew that hogs could suddenly stop getting fat and die of cholera; that if they didn't die they could sell so cheaply there was no profit in the year's long work. He wanted to do something about that. He wanted to help make farm life better...
...widely advertised Nazi advantage was said to be the fact that grain was still too green to burn. But in some places they were reaping green corn; in others, they hauled out sprayers formerly used for pest-killing, and burned the grain with chemicals; in others, though abandoning the standing grain, they ruined agricutural machinery, depriving the Germans of the means of reaping...