Word: corns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...area failed to prosper. Producers of livestock and livestock products took in $9.1 billion in the first half of this year for what actually was a smaller quantity of meat, poultry and dairy products than they sent to market in January-June 1957. Even the surplus-ridden wheat, cotton, corn and other crop producers managed to boost sales by 10% to $4.7 billion. In some states the increase in farmers' cash receipts was nearly 100%. Texas farmers, from January through May, took in $704 million v. $489 million in 1957. Nebraska cash receipts jumped from $339 million...
FOOD MERGER is in works between fast-growing Corn Products Refining Co. and Best Foods, Inc. to create grocery processor second only to General Foods Corp. (annual sales: $1 billion). Corn Products (Mazola salad oil, Karo syrups) grossed $495 million last year, while Best Foods (Nucoa margarine, Hellmann's mayonnaise) grossed $114 million...
Mothers of River City! Watch for the telltale signs of corruption. The moment your son leaves the house does he re-buckle his knickerbockers below the knee? Is there a nicotine stain on his index finger? A dime novel hidden in the corn crib? Is he memorizing jokes out of Capt. Billy's "Whiz Bang"? Are certain words creeping into his conversation? Words like "swell" and "so's your old man"? If so, my friends-ya got Trouble...
...HARVEST will equal last year's record despite crop controls, will create bigger stockpiles and raise Government farm costs. Wheat and soybean production will grow to new high, though cotton and corn will drop...
...chick, might be someone like Jazz Singer Billie Holiday. Actually, the resemblances are not important. This is a standard jazz story and, beyond that, basically the standard intellectual's novel about the artist in the U.S. who is somehow made to feel that he is alien corn-or horn. That Edgar Pool is a Negro has little to do with it. Implicit in the book is the notion that Jazzman Pool died the death of a poet who lived in a country that does not give much houseroom to poetry. Author Holmes comes no closer to proving this case...