Word: corns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strode into Washington, denounced universal military training,* said that Russian aggression was a myth, and then bustled back to Manhattan. He also found time to order half a ton of cow manure worked into the 5 ft. by 15 ft. plot adjoining his Park Avenue headquarters, in preparation for corn planting...
Where U.S. Highway 75 broadens into Main Street, there is Sioux Center, Iowa. Sioux Center is a Corn Belt town of 2,000 people. Of a Saturday evening, shiny new Fords and Plymouths, parked at an angle to the curb, line both sides of the street. Back from the broad sidewalks, the one-story frame and brick buildings house a pair of hash-houses, a Rexall drugstore, a Chevrolet agency, Dejong's Hatchery. There are no traffic lights...
...boss, President Truman, likes to thump-did not need much study to know what the program meant. When the Chicago market opened next day, May wheat promptly jumped the permissible daily limit of 10? a bushel, with other futures not far behind. The rise in wheat pulled up corn, oats, soybeans and lard. By week's end, profit-taking by traders had reduced some of the gains. But Anderson held out hope for another rise. The Government, he hinted cheerily, might resume wheat-buying fairly soon...
...abandoned worldly affairs to study plants and words (nature and man). Life with these quiet, diligent and lawful men is deeply satisfying-until the Mauretanians, inhabitants of bordering swamps and forests, begin their raids. The Mauretanians are led by the Chief Ranger, a man who "hated the plough, the corn, the vine and the animals tamed by man, who looked with distaste on spacious dwellings and a free and open life. . . . Only then did his heart stir when moss and ivy grew green on the ruins of the towns, and under the broken tracery of vaulted cathedrals the bats fluttered...
Free beer, cigarettes, ice cream, and soda will also greet all fun-seeking Freshmen who Geek to Sauders for the much-heralded affair. Corn-Cob pipes may also be given away as seventies said the countries. Purchase of a percent program will cover the admission...