Word: corns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blessing in Abundance. Bitingly, he pointed to a decline in cotton, wheat, corn and rice prices since 1952, but noted that peanut prices have gone up slightly. "This administration has a fine record on peanuts," he laughed. But the farm price slide constitutes a "farm depression." From the past, Stevenson dragged out a familiar Democratic tactic: run against Herbert Hoover. The last time the Republicans succeeded in keeping "the stock market up and the farm market down," said Stevenson, "was the last time they were in office, with Hoover at the helm...
...Adlai, points the way to better days on the farm: 90% parity, more and easier credit, extension of production and marketing agreements, promotion of Eisenhower's soil bank, which Stevenson called "a good Democratic idea." To these proposals Stevenson added one of his own, pitched straight at his corn-and-hog-growing audience: special payments to hog growers to encourage early marketing and ease seasonal price fluctuations...
...Florida, with its un-fall-like weather, its grapefruit trees, its trailers fancied up with everything from built-on rooms and porches to landscaped lawns. Sunday, it was Cleveland, as coolly respectable as Florida, and unexpectedly flamboyant; Monday, the lush, velvety valleys, red barns and wind-stroked corn fields of Wisconsin; Tuesday, the tall towers of Minneapolis, rising sharply from the prairie and gleaming in the warm sun; old, mellow St. Paul with its distinguished piles of Victorian brick and stone on Summit Avenue, where Scott Fitzgerald lived...
Chaac was the most important god in the everyday life of the corn-growing Mayans. Betokening his rain-producing powers, he is shown with two pots for water, one adorned with corn symbol. Beneath his ojo de serpiente (eye of the snake) headdress, he presents a double aspect: one side still wears the now-muted green of lush cornfields; the other is the weathered brown of drought...
...knew the rocket was my job when you married me"), a crisis (the bomb sticks to the ship's hull), an addled scientist (Donald Wolfit), and a final clinch between Reporter Maxwell and craggy-browed Pilot Kieron Moore. After 85 harrowing minutes Satellite makes port, leaving the corn barrier sadly shattered...