Word: corns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drop in food and clothing prices later this year changed abruptly into doubt. For the second successive week, the commodity futures market, which had been quiet or sagging during May and June, boiled up with an ominous hiss. Wheat futures rose the permissible limit of 10? a day. July corn jumped to an alltime high of $2.21 a bushel. Within two days, sharp rises in eleven major commodities forced the Dow-Jones commodity futures index up 4.07 points to 146.37. It was the highest since the index was first compiled in 1933 and 9.82 points above the previous high this...
Chain Reaction. But reports of corn were far from good. Cold weather and floods had taken a heavy toll, leaving an estimated yield of only 2.6 billion bu. The crop was still almost up to the 1936-45 average, but it was down 21% from last year. Good weather, said the report optimistically, might brighten the corn picture considerably. But corn users, not willing to take that chance, started to buy heavily...
...ease the pressure on prices, the Department of Agriculture canceled a July-August allocation of 6,740,000 bu. of corn for export and decided to substitute wheat, barley and grain sorghums. For all the abundant expectations, the demand for wheat was already being heightened by harvest trouble. Rains had already put the harvest behind schedule. And though there were more combines at work than ever before, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas were yelling for still more...
...earthworm population is declining because farmers have been scraping away the nation's topsoil for generations. The five-hearted earthworm is coldblooded, cannot survive a sudden freeze. In free-plowed fields, where the earth is laid bare (and in entire areas, like the Corn Belt), earthworms die off in great numbers each winter...
...before love. . . . You'll never be richer or freer than in divesting yourselves of your selves. If you give only half your life, the other half will be resentful and its reproaches will rob you of joy. . . . Why worry about those who consume us? The vine and the corn do not refuse themselves to the unworthy. . . . Be a sacrifice in the universal sacrifice . . . come to Love . . . Love is strong enough to save the world...