Word: corns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wheat prices in the past three months showed how one bird had flown. During July the price of wheat futures at Chicago rose from $2.12 in June to $2.35. Predictions of a bumper wheat crop had knocked the price off a little, but when reports of a bad corn crop came in, the wheat price soared again. The day the Paris conferees announced Europe's needs, it climbed to $2.66. Two weeks after Harry Truman announced the food-saving program, the price hit a high...
...field, Brown's instructions are quietly delivered. Says he: "Days of ranting and raving are over. This has become a cold, analytical business. You can't bamboozle a professional or even a college or high-school player with corn. The desire to win you create that way is short-lived. It blows up with the first adversity. You can't talk a man into doing a job right. He learns only by doing it a hundred times, under exacting supervision...
...days, we used to write songs for singers. The songs were personal, and the public felt that. Now they write songs for publishers. You could write a song about 'My Dear Old Mother' or 'I Love You' in a way that seems like terrible corn today. But today songwriters have become too selfconscious. They are afraid of being hooted out of town for writing that kind of thing. Actually, you know," he added in his scratchy, rapid-fire tenor, "corn of itself is always good. If it's bad, it's just bad writing...
...past, Harvester would do the farmer's reaping, picking and binding, with corn-and cotton-pickers, beet harvesters, self-propelled combines. But like the U.S. farmer, Harvester had its eye firmly fixed on the all-purpose tractor. This year the company turned out 108,000 tractors, more than any other piece of heavy equipment. Next year it intends to cover the market, from the giant 18-ton, 170-h.p. diesel crawler to the midget Farmall Cub, selling for $545 f.o.b. (about $1,000 with attachments). The Cub was designed to mechanize some of the 3,300,000 U.S. farms...
...white and blue poster. It showed a blond young giant in blue overalls holding a peasant girl by the hand; she in turn wac clasping the hand of a chubby infant. All three of them were depicted as standing in the middle of a field of corn, smiling brightly. At the foot of the poster, in great black letters, it said: "Paysans! Paysannes! Pour une vie phis riche-votes Communiste" (Men & women of the farms! For a richer life-vote Communist...