Word: corns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Word from Home. In Des Moines, canny State Representative Harold Nelson left a cigar box planted with corn sprouts atop his desk, felt confident that restless farmer-legislators would demand adjournment when the sprouts began to sprout...
...Agriculture forecast that, if "the present good weather holds, the 1947 wheat crop would be the biggest of all time-a whopping 1,212,000,000 bushels (v. 1,156,000,000 in 1946, the previous high). On the basis of farmers' planting plans, said the Government, corn and other grain crops would also be huge-depending on the weather. Despite this talk of bumper crops, grain prices steadied at week's end, even rose a bit. Traders hoped that, with most other nations short of grains, the U.S. would continue its heavy exporting for a year, anyway...
...surprised if his general program for cooperation, now being studied, by a Vermont legislative committee, is adopted by the farmers. He has learned enough about Vermonters to quote the old saying: "I don't see how a Vermont farmer manages to fix a piece of ground for corn. To do so he has to cooperate with the horse...
...already doing a man's work. But despite Teo's help, Pier had to mortgage the farm again. Pier was hardworking and resourceful, but he was also bullheaded. In the early '303, he refused to join his neighbors in the New Deal's corn and hog program. In 1936, the great dust storms ruined him. ("Fool. Such a fool. Man assumes that the soil is eternal. It is not. . . ."). Neglected and sick for years, Nertha died...
...Common Sense." But to Milo Reno, a farm-audience spellbinder of the early '30s, "Wallace would make a second-rate County Agent if he knew a little more." And blunt AAAdministrator George Peek (whom Lord respects), wrote: "[Wallace] tended rather to specialize in the study of corn, and was a dreamy, honest-minded and rather likable sort of fellow. He had a mystical, religious side to him, and, never having been in the real rough and tumble of life-for he simply went on the family paper as a matter of course-since [he] was always with the good...