Word: corns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Banker Harold Holmes Helm, 58, expansion-minded chairman of Manhattan's Chemical Corn Exchange Bank, long had his "loving eye" on the New York Trust Co. He knew that a minority of New York Trust shareholders wanted to sell out if they could get a good price. New York Trust's big wholesale banking business (specializing in large industrial accounts) and its seven offices would nicely complement his own 94-office bank doing a largely retail banking business with smaller clients. Last week Helm proposed a merger, swapping 1¾ shares of Chemical Corn stock for one share...
Needless Worry. By last week, Garvey had just about finished this season's additions to his private grain-storage kingdom, now the world's biggest with a capacity of 150 million bushels. The U.S. Department of Agriculture pays him $14.7 million a year to store surplus wheat, corn and grain sorghums bought from his and other farms. Soon after the harvesting gets under way this month, the big 1959 crop will be piled on top of the two-year U.S. surplus already owned or under loan by the Agriculture Department (1.2 billion bushels...
...test the effects of radiation, the nose cone carried tubes containing living onion tissue, yeast cells, corn and mustard seeds, fruit flies, human blood (the donor: Captain William Augerson of the surgeon general's office), and the eggs and sperm of sea urchins. Some of the eggs and sperm were arranged to be mixed during the flight, causing the first conception of earthly life in space for the later study of earth-bound scientists...
...JONES AVERAGE will add four companies (Anaconda, Swift, Owens-Illinois Glass, and Alcoa) to industrial index, drop four (American Smelting & Refining, Corn Products, National Steel, and National Distillers & Chemical) to broaden number of industries represented among 30 stocks that comprise list...
...Fair Lady cribs from Shaw, West Side Story cribs from Shakespeare, and The Music Man cribs from a silo of Iowa corn, making these three musicals grand larceny and great entertainment...