Word: corns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corn Cobbers. In Manhattan, two Australian flyers, tired of waiting for travel orders home, applied for New Jersey farm jobs...
...hours Russians and Germans fought a savage street battle. Then the city fell. The Second Ukrainian Army lunged southward through ripening wheat and corn, sent spearheads westward into the beech-clad Carpathian foothills, penetrated Hungarian-held Transylvania. At week's end it hammered past Focsani, western anchor of the Gap's defenses and a main junction on the railway to Ploesti...
...last week's official forecast was for the biggest wheat crop ever harvested, near-record yields of corn, oats, small grains, rice, peas, beans, vegetables, tobacco. Fruit crops were guesstimated from 10 to 15% greater than in 1943. For the third consecutive year the weather in the principal food-producing area for the United Nations had been miraculously favorable...
...only. The jockeys rode bareback (or muleback as Deltans say) with the assistance of knees, heels, hands and profanity. What the mules lacked in speed they made up "for in mulishness. They balked, wheeled, vaulted over fences, ran countertrackwise. The crowd howled with delight and kept pulling at its corn...
Colonel Wheat, Colonel Corn, Colonel...