Word: corns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legislative reporter for the Albany Knickerbocker Press, Pressagent Wheaton had been women's publicity director for the Republican National Committee for 18 years when she became the first woman press aide in White House history (TIME, April 15). A divorcee, she is as skillful with the skillet (specialty: corn pudding and fried chicken) as the handout. In her most critical task last week, she showed cucumber-cool efficiency in getting out advance texts of Ike's speech at precisely the promised hour (two hours before TV time), even looked serene as she distributed copies...
FEED-GRAIN CROP will grow to new high this year, slice pork prices next summer. Because of favorable weather and 47-million-ton carryover from surplus in earlier years, output of feed corn, oats, barley and grain sorghums will rise 6% to 213 million tons...
Unemployment Benefits. In La Follette, Tenn., after severe unemployment forced the Federal Government to declare his county a "distress area," Sheriff Willie Chapman and his men raided several moonshine stills, found that the yellow corn meal used to make the liquor had been distributed by the welfare office...
...pepper-corn" haired bushmen of remote Africa will receive a visit this year from members of an expedition sponsored jointly by the Peabody Museum and the Smithsonian Institute...
Numbering about 6,000, the Bushmen are short in stature with extremely curly "pepper-corn" hair. Their skin is dark but with unique reddish hues. Their language and religion are also distinctive...