Word: corns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Call it corn, schmaltz or what you will, no Mickey-Mouse band wheezing through Till the End of Time could ever, by any stretch of the imagination, play anything but that...
...midsection of the Mississippi Valley was not the only part of the Midwest in serious trouble last week. A million and a half acres of rich corn soil had been drowned out by rain that had fallen all but nine days during the month of June. The Missouri was 10.3 feet above flood stage and still rising. In Iowa, Agriculture Department experts called erosion losses (over 5 million acres) the worst in corn-belt history...
Other experts estimated crop damage at $160 million, gloomily predicted that the U.S. corn yield would fall 40% below last year...
Last week, standing firmly on good Midwestern earth, an American farmer viewed the world beyond the flat horizon. He had just finished three days' work, at an average of 16 hours a day, plowing and planting corn; he had even rigged up lights on his tractor so he could work nights, getting his crops in the ground. He considered the Marshall Plan they were discussing over there in Paris, and said...
...long way from his poverty-ridden Augusta (Ga.) boyhood. "We used to work several months to make enough for a pair of shoes," he says, "and had them half-soled so many times your foot was an inch off the ground." Nourished on hard-won sow belly and corn pone, he swept up in cotton mills, ran errands, jerked sodas and sold papers until he caught the eye of Clarence Saunders, ex-Piggly Wiggly king. When Saunders went broke in 1931, Crouch was in Oakland, Calif, running 44 of his stores...