Word: corns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this time, "Reluctant Rupert" had become a celebrity. The entire Corn Belt, which takes bulls seriously, was eager for news about him. The Foxes took Rupert to the Stange Memorial Veterinary Clinic at Iowa State College. There, Dr. Mack Emmerson transplanted the pituitary gland from the skull of another bull to Rupert's flank. After the gland had had time to work, Rupert was given the heifer test again. Still no calves...
...calendar. Exactly a year ago, grain prices had tumbled in the worst shakeout in seven years. Last week traders had more than the calendar to make them nervous. The Department of Agriculture announced that it would not put any acreage restrictions on this year's corn crop. With the market already glutted, that seemed to mean another big crop and still lower prices ahead...
Traders swarmed into the corn-futures pit waving orders to sell. The selling deluge quickly spread to wheat, oats and rye. Prices tumbled. By week's end, cash corn had dropped 16? to $1.23 a bushel, lowest price in three years. May wheat, worth $3.06 before the 1948 break, slipped down to $2.17, and September futures dropped...
...traders, who had thought that grain prices had hit bottom because they were at Government-support levels, were fooled; the artificial props could not support the weight of the glut. For various reasons, including lack of storage space, farmers had been forced to sell below support levels. Cash corn was down 36? below the support level; September wheat, 19?. Said one trader: "It looks as if the Government may have bitten off more than it can chew...
...flying squad of the Three Little Steamshovels, out to develop some big league baseball players who aren't from the corn country or the south, landed is Briggs Cage Saturday and dropped a few hints to the assembled mob of high school coaches, H.A.A. moguls and passers-by on the care and feeding of future stars. The upshot of the session was the startling intelligence that each ballplayer is an individual problem and must be treated as such by his coach...