Word: corns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corn, soybeans, alfalfa, wheat, cattle and hogs-everything had "done fine." Buildings gleamed in a new coat of white paint. New cider and fruit packing houses, equipped with stainless steel tanks and refrigerating units, stood near the main house. There was a new $1,500 orchard duster and an elevator that hoisted corn from the wagons into the cribs...
...catch the farmer's eye, Merrill Lynch posted stock certificates of companies as familiar to farmers as Sears, Roebuck & Co., General Motors Corp., General Electric Co. and Corn Products Refining Co., and pointed out that the shares have been paying 5 to 7%. Though Merrill Lynch was careful not to draw the comparison, this is far bigger than the return that farmers get from savings banks...
...price breaks and get better prices for their crops. One farmer who listened to an explanation of how General Mills buys & sells futures, not to speculate but to hedge itself against inventory losses, commented: "And here I thought all the time that they were just playing craps with my corn...
...Marcos wasn't much of a capital city, and the country itself was immemorially backward, wretchedly poor. Two percent of its people owned 80% of the land; tenant farmers got 2? a day, skilled workers 7? an hour. On the highlands, hungry Indians scratched the barren slopes for corn, still trying to live by what they remembered of the dignified old tribal customs. And ruling the country was Dictator Ronca, a strutting, streamlined Latin American demagogue who had won the peasants' support by promising them land, only to suppress them as soon as he got to power...
...opens, all is quiet on the Hatfield-McCoy front. Over in West Virginia, the hot-tempered, hard-drinking Hatfields are helling about after bear and possum in their own backyard. On the Kentucky side of the Big Sandy River, the hard-working McCoys are peaceably tending their taters and corn. But the armistice is not to last. When young Johnse Hatfield (Farley Granger) falls in love with Roseanna McCoy (Joan Evans) and carries her off to be his bride, hell breaks loose on the border. In no time at all, every Hatfield in the hills is blazing away...