Word: corns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trim little maestro who serves up this musical corn felt that its popularity was natural and deserved. Said Bandleader-Songwriter Al Trace: "We always knew this music was in for keeps. Other stuff comes & goes, but this is the people . . . We play down to them, play requests and mention their names. We give them a good time and we play stuff they can dance to. How can you miss...
...Chicago last week, the price of cash corn suddenly tumbled nearly 14? a bushel. One reason: private estimates had put the record 1948 crop at 3,540,602,000 bushels, 34 million bushels greater than the Department of Agriculture's latest forecast...
Future prices quoted on the new crop were now some 20? below the anticipated Government support level of $1.60 a bushel at Chicago. But farmers could not get loans on their corn from the Government at support levels until they got their crop into storage-and there was not enough room to store it. Traders guessed that as many as 500 million bushels might be dumped on the open market for lack of storage. That would drive prices down still further...
...most for their corn, many farmers were planning to increase hog feeding and buy cattle to fatten on corn. But the Bureau of Agricultural Economics did not think this would add to the meat supply-and bring prices down-until late 1949. In fact, said the bureau, meat would be even scarcer this winter, and prices might go even higher...
...with sales dropping, Gene began to shave prices. Corn dropped a nickel. Finally, at 8 p.m., his truck was empty. Dead tired, he and Winnifred set out for home. It had been a good day and there was more than $100 in the pocket of Gene's heavy black pants...