Word: corns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Patient. With crushed flowers, powdered rock, pollen, charcoal and corn meal, the Navajos invented a highly abstract way of picturing their even more abstract ideas of the forces that move nature. Their paintings, which their underprivileged, impoverished descendants (TIME, Nov. 3) still produce in quantity, have nothing to do with art as civilization knows it. They are not merely for art's sake, like most modern painting, nor are they done in a spirit of reverence, like early Greek and early Renaissance art; and they seldom vary with the individual artists-who are always medicine men. Navajo sand paintings...
Valpey is no fool. He won a national scholarship once. He knows the switch to Cambridge means forsaking a land of plenty for a relative land of famine. He knows he won't find the big, corn-fed beeves here he found roaming Midwestern gridirons...
...noon, the closing gong ended the worst week the pits had seen in seven years. Cash wheat had fallen 41⅝? a bushel to $2.46½. Cash corn was down 49¾? to $2.13. In sympathetic spasms, almost every other commodity had tumbled with them. The stockmarket had steadied by week's end, but before it leveled off, the Dow-Jones industrial average had dropped 6.24 points to 168.81, lowest since June...
...last month shipped two and a half times as much wheat as in the same period a year before. France expects to double her 1947 crops. Russia was shipping wheat to Britain last week. Rumania, considered to have no food to spare, offered to sell 40 million bushels of corn...
...story: a brash, rising bandmaster (Dan Dailey), the toast of the corn belt, marries a small-town girl (Jeanne Grain) and, just as he snags his first Manhattan date, collides with the '29 depression. He is proud; his wife is sensible. He tries to keep up a front; she knows that there is no front to keep up. When they retreat to her parents' home, he won't even get up mornings-much less lend a hand in supporting the family. After several reels of this sort of thing, everyone working on the picture evidently said...