Word: corns
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Sugar. Producers of corn, cotton, wheat, rice, tobacco legally may not receive more than $10,000 a year in benefit payments. Sugar is a special case. Annually 130 Hawaiian and Puerto Rican sugar producers get more than $10,000 in benefits; 31 of them get payments ranging individually from $102,927 to $665,211 a year. Only three U. S. producers get such big subsidies: U. S. Sugar Corp., Clewiston, Fla. got $430,420 in 1937, last year about the same...
...your Feb. 26 issue, in the article about Tom Dewey's tour, it stated that in Helena, Mont., the people "eke out a meagre existence from gold, copper & silver mines, sheep & cattle ranches, the production of wheat, corn, oats, potatoes...
...like the recent Goodspeed-Smith "American" Bible, is much more colloquial than the Revised Version of 1901, now being re-revised by a committee Under Dr. Moffatt. Last week this Presbyterian pundit had a new job: program consultant for a commercial radio program. His employer: General Mills, Inc. (Wheaties, Corn Kix, Gold Medal Flour...
...emotion it arouses is one of pity for the refugees' plight rather than of indignation for what caused it. This is to write in a minor key, and flub a big theme. For there must always be those who, sick for home, stand in tears amid the alien corn. But only once in a very long while has the home they weep for been turned into a living Hell...
...with 125, and one with 68. At Helena, where the Parade of the Vigilantes is an annual affair, where Main Street runs along the bottom of Last Chance Gulch, and where natives eke out a meagre existence from gold, copper & silver mines, sheep & cattle ranches, the production of wheat, corn, oats, potatoes, etc., 1,000 of the city's 11,800 turned out to make the biggest political rally in Montana's history. ("That is the greatest financial error in history! . . . Who can that group of advisers be who would so mislead a President...