Word: corns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corn in the Crib
...crib of Nelson Roth, east of Pekin, was sealed today [with] Seal No. 0-48-5 of the Secretary of Agriculture of the U.S. . . . Sealed in this farm crib are 5,400 bushels of 1948 corn on which the Government has loaned $1.42 a bushel. If this corn had had to be sold when cribbed, it would have brought $1.25. Thus Mr. Roth is $918 ahead by sealing it. If the price goes above $1.42 before Sept. i, 1949, Farmer Roth can sell it and pay his loan. If the price remains below $1.42, Roth will simply deliver the corn...
...companies began to let it spin. By last week, Dinah Shore's record of Buttons and Bows was No. 1 on the hit parade. It was just the songwriters' good fortune that by the time their tune finally came out, the U.S. was in a mood for "corn belt" music with words like...
Because of la cometa, more people than usual were praying in Mexico City churches, but they lighted fewer candles at the altars. Explained sad-eyed Maria Rodríguez, as she stood in the queue at the corn mill on Niño Perdido Avenue: "When artificial light burns while a comet is in the skies, newborn babies will be marked, on their bodies if male and on their faces if female." The other women nodded soberly. "Even if all the lights are out," said Juana Sanchez, "one hundred children will be born this year with harelips, two prominent...
Barnbuster. In its next-to-final count, the Department of Agriculture estimated that this year's corn crop would reach 3,649,510,000 bushels-82 million more than was estimated a month ago, 320 million more than the first forecast this year. 12% more than the record crop of 1946. Improvements in other crops in dicated that this year's total farm production would also exceed the 1946 high by a barnbusting...