Word: corns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Germany Off Limits is already a bestseller. The crass coating of sex and corn on this propaganda pill, plus the easygoing American tendency to let bygones be bygones, may make the book almost as successful in the U.S., although it is rubbish. Off Limits mounts hundreds of unrelated, postage-stamp vignettes of the occupation years 1945 to 1951 side by side. Amid the meandering plots and subplots, readers will meet the following unattractive Americans: an intelligence major who forms a sado-masochistic liaison with the Ile Koch-like widow of a concentration-camp commandant, a Jewish captain who allows...
...news was a shock. Benson worried that his whole soil bank might now suffer because-among other reasons-multi-crop farmers who decline to comply with acreage restrictions on one crop, e.g., corn, are not eligible for soil-bank payments on other crops, e.g., wheat, peanuts, cotton. What to do? The Agriculture Department probably will ask Congress to enact in legislation the plan that failed to win the two-thirds majority. Since 61% of the farmers actually voted for his plan, Ezra Benson feels that equity is on his side. He hopes that Congress will feel the same, but before...
Ever since the election, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson had looked forward to smooth plowing for his soil-bank program. He needed to rally the corn farmers to the program with more enthusiasm. And to do this, he was prepared to allocate considerably more acreage to the cornmen-though with a lower support price ($1.31 v. $1.36 a bu.)-if only the farmers would renounce the surplus-building system of the old acreage-allotment plan. Last week corn farmers put Benson's new plan to a vote. Result: in the 894 commercial corn counties in the U.S., cornmen stubbornly...
Lucy and Desi will light up the tree for young Ricky's Christmas, George and Grade will spend Christmas in jail, and the rest of TV's regulars will deck their corn with holly for the holidays. There will also be a spate of special programs, promising, in all, a two-week cascade of goodies and not-so-goodies. Some of the most promising promises...
Otis Dozier's themes-grasshoppers and bulls, Indian corn in the hot summer fields, a humid-swamp night scene-can be readily identified by any Texan. But his grasshopper is not just a laboratory specimen; it is a wondrous creature of heat and noise. When he painted Brahma Bull, Dozier did not try to provide a guessing game for Texas cattlemen adept at estimating values on the hoof, but to capture "the thing you always feel about a bull. He's the most powerful of the animal kingdom, and he seems to know it." In Place...