Word: corns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dancers, has identified Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians through two decades: "The sweetest music this side of heaven." Probably because Guy has kept it the same old sweet and danceable way ever since, he has survived-while ripplers, swingsters, hoppers and scoffers who called him the "King of Corn" fell by the wayside. And because he survived, and earned a reputation as a "sweet guy" at the same time, Tin Pan Alley and Radio Row were helping him celebrate three anniversaries last week...
...Moines schoolboy On Easter Sunday 1926, his mother gave him a dozen baby chicks from the dime store and he began raising them in his backyard, with some advice from his father, Henry Agard Wallace. No politician then father Henry was spending his time developing his hybrid corn,* forming the Pioneer Hi-Bred Corn Co. to sell the seed, and editing Wallaces' Farmer. When the corn became a success (over 99% of Iowa corn springs from some brand of hybrid ternel), young Henry decided to revolutionize the poultry business with hybrid chickens as his father had helped revolutionize corn...
...four Wallace farms last year; the others were raised by breeders on a royalty basis or hatched from eggs sold to poultrymen at fancy prices. Noting that 9% of Iowa's chickens were already hybrids, young Henry predicted: "In seven years, 90% of all poultry farmers in the corn belt will be using hybrids...
...corn crop meant that a big pig crop was a certainty. Last week top hog prices dropped $1.25 per hundredweight in Chicago, to only $2 above the $18.50 level at which the Government must start supporting hogs and thus add another expense to the support program...
...fiscal year's end in June, the agency had $2.3 billion tied up in loans and inventories, showing a paper loss of $356 million for the year at current market prices. Most of the support money went for only seven commodities: cotton, $822 million; corn, $470 million; wheat, $640 million; flaxseed, linseed oil, $231 million; potatoes, $219 million; peanuts, $173 million; tobacco, $107 million. And the new fiscal year has opened with a bang: wheat support during July cost $63 million. For the coming crop year, the cost of the support program is estimated at $2.1 billion...