Word: corns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation's vacation hunger, the summer of 1946 would be remembered for more than roadside photographs. In Manhattan and many a big city the half-forgotten chatter of rivet guns sounded once more from the bare girders of new buildings. Crops were making a comeback; in Iowa the corn was pushing up 'way ahead of last year...
Chicago's Board of Trade, dazzled, baffled and bewitched by U.S. grain policies, finally said to hell with it. Last week the board's directors shut down trading in wheat and rye, curtailed trading in corn and barley, canceled $50 million worth of contracts. With the U.S. buying huge quantities of grain directly from farmers for shipment abroad, it was impossible to continue "a free and orderly market." Kansas City and Minneapolis exchanges promptly shut...
Contending with such excellence, and often winning the fall: the purple-plush artiness, 200-proof corn and gross sentimentality which Ben Hecht often fails to separate from the honest and original features of his talent...
...grain trader, Cargill, Inc., let out a yowl. Cargill, famed for cornering corn in 1937, had again bought heavily in corn, anticipating the OPA action. Now, with six million bushels on hand, it stood to lose "in excess of $1 million" if it could not sell grain on its futures contracts at the new ceilings. Cargill sued the Board of Trade for treble damages...
...Each His Own (Paramount) is a double helping of expertly stewed, exquisitely served corn. The film allows its heroine (Olivia de Havilland) to give birth to a bastard, in the hallowed melodramatic tradition of Way Down East. But the fact that Miss de Havilland and the audience are required to suffer & suffer & suffer during the balance of a feature-length lifetime makes it all up to Hollywood for her moment of indiscretion...