Word: corns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week ran the campaign of Henry Wallace, 51, author of Corn and Corn Growing, editor, savant, dreamer and mystic. There was nothing quite like it in U. S. political history. Three weeks ago the candidate opened with his acceptance speech in Des Moines, in which he damned Republicans as the party of appeasement. Then he spoke in twelve Illinois communities, moved on to Weeping Water, Neb. and so followed his methodical, patient, unheralded path into 41 cities and towns that had gone for Roosevelt in 1936. Other men got the headlines-chief among them, Franklin Roosevelt. Other men drew...
...milepost of the business year, business was rolling along, gathering boom momentum. A few chronic laggards remained behind. One was oil, the victim of a production war between the States. Another was cotton, practically shorn of its export markets, hopelessly overproduced for the market left to it. Another was corn, also export-dependent, whose only records these days are set in terms of surpluses. Two others, much more significant, were the stockmarket, which measures business confidence, and construction, without whose participation no boom lasts long. Last week (subject to many a prayer for England) the up-or-down question...
...early 19th Century, itinerant U. S. barbers traveled from town to town, carrying bags of dirty knives, and even old steels from corsets, for paring customers' corns. They usually charged 25? an operation, raised howls of pain from their victims. One day, while lounging around a hotel lobby, a lush-bearded young man from New Hampshire named Nehemiah Kenison met a Scotsman who had a new, painless method of removing corns. Instead of digging with a scalpel, he first softened the corn in acid, then carefully shelled it out with a dull bone blade...
...bulk of chiropodic practice consists of corn trimming. Last week Podiatrists James S. Bowman and Robert E. Fowler of Temple University School reported a new way of removing corns by injection. They inject solutions of a bismuth compound or salt water or even sterile water around the margin of the corn, thus choking off the tiny blood vessels which feed it. After several injections, the corn dissolves. This treatment, they cautioned, is still in an experimental stage...
...Georgia farm calendar when it is too early to pick cotton or pull fodder, too late for plowing, the camp meeting gave Georgians a chance for chatting as well as churchgoing. Camp ers downed prodigious meals of fried chicken, country ham, barbecued beef, Brunswick stew, stuffed eggs, potato salad, corn on the cob, pie, watermelon, iced tea, lemonade, Coca-Cola. Even after such meals, old Dr. Bascom Anthony could stir his congregation...