Word: corns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...South, suh, there's no sech thing as snow, and people knock off nine holes before and after every corn fritter. While the Harvard squad has been swinging ski poles and replacing the turf on sitzmarks, the southern schools have spent the last month practicing on blossoming courses...
Honorary Bricklayers. In the refrain of "Squire" Harge, superintendent of the mission, he must "husk the corn and shell it and finish the fall plowing and get up some fence posts and flail out the wheat and boss the Indian women while they dig the rest of the turnips and potatoes and move that big stone under my kitchen stove and put a new floor in my sitting-room and there's some repairs on the cart and we need a new privy and a couple of ox-yokes and I have a clock that...
After last fortnight's sharp drop in grain prices, traders last week hoped that prices might steady. Instead, the biggest sinking spell in a year hit the Chicago grain pits at midweek. In one day, all grain futures tumbled their legal limits. In the cash markets, corn hit its lowest price since April 1945 (at Chicago, No. 2 yellow corn dropped from $1.27 a bushel to $1.17). Oats and rye also broke through the levels of OPA days...
...grain than the U.S. could eat, store or ship abroad. The Government had already taken a fourth of the bumper wheat crop off the market, by loans and purchases under its support plan. It expected to have to do the same with as much as 600 million bushels of corn-more than is normally sold commercially in a year. But with most storage space filled, a huge amount of "free grain" not encompassed by the support program had been thrown on the market. Cash corn had been driven as much as 40? below the support price, and wheat down...
Story No. i (The Facts of Life) is a pleasant, inconsequential gag and No. 2 (The Alien Corn) a piece of out & out bathos. But script No. 3 is a solid bite of meatiest Maugham. The Kite is the story of Herbert Sunbury (George Cole), a simple-minded city lad with a possessive mom (Hermione Baddeley) and a small boy's passion for flying kites on the local commons. But Herbert's young bride wants him with no kite strings-nor silver cords-attached. When he refuses to cut loose, she kicks him out and plays...