Word: corns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eighty minutes later time was called. The contestants were panting, splotched with blood from cutting themselves on stiff corn leaves. Judges pawed over the wagonloads, deducted gleanings, weighed the results, announced that Irving Bauman had set a new record of 46.71 bushels, had won the 1940 national championship. Second: Marion Link, whose 46.36 bushels also topped the old record...
...farmers and their families listened to songs by Indian children from the Sac and Fox reservations, with a slow, critical eye looked over farm implements on display at the Keppy farm, grinned at a map of Iowa made of over a million corn kernels. But what they really liked best were Irving Bauman's 46.71 bushels of husked corn. Plowman Timbers' neat turns and straight rows...
...Turks did and the Turks would not move until the Russians told them to, when they realized how little practical support the British could give, they were grave. They gathered in coffee houses and drank thick Turkish coffee and sipped their ouzo, as colorless and full of kick as corn likker...
...agricultural products. Possible makeup: 100,000 bales of cotton (U. S. annual output 12,000,000 bales); 500,000 bushels of wheat (current production 792,332,000 bushels, surplus 250,000,000); 700,000 bushels of soybeans (81,541,000 bushels grown this year); 500,000 bushels of corn (ten-year average yield 2,299,342,000 bushels); lesser amounts of hides, lard, glue, pine pitch, sugar-cane alcohol and flax. Imported materials would be cork, rubber, tung oil and ramie, Egyptian mummy-wrapping fibre. Best of all, wheat, corn and soybeans are interchangeable. Ford can use all three...
...Rich Neigh bor could promise two other favors to the Colossus of the South. One was to keep U.S. wheat out of Brazilian markets, where U. S. dumping in 1938-39 drove Argentine farmers wild. The other was to stand aside on $160,000,000 of beef and corn orders now being placed by the British letting Argentina have first crack...