Word: corns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...near future. Central America will remain predominantly agricultural, and while modern methods are used to produce major exports (bananas, coffee), not enough attention is paid to such staples as corn, beans and rice. The most successful farms are on large pieces of land, says the C.E.D., pointing out that 50% of Central America's agricultural output comes from such operations. Counseling against land-reform programs to break up going concerns, the report suggests that land hunger can best be satisfied by opening up unused government-owned lands...
More Fanfare. His successor as Premier, Aleksei Kosygin, delivered the state-of-the-Soviet-Union speech in 80 minutes, unrelieved by Khrushchevian corn pone, invective or grandiloquence...
...sight in Cairo. Last week, faced with the unpleasant fact that a measure of austerity is the inescapable price of a crash development scheme, the government took the drastic step of banning the slaughter and sale of meat three days out of each week. It's back to corn and beans for the Egyptians on Sundays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, though tourist hotels will still be allowed to serve meat daily. Violators could get up to one year in jail. To ease the shortage, the government has also set aside $90 million in precious foreign exchange to import Russian frozen...
...indeed, things seem to be retrogressing so rapidly these days that the differences in style between Lyndon Johnson and Andrew Jackson grow ever less noteworthy. Old Hickory, it will be remembered, used to invite crowds off the street to come into the White House and drink corn whisky...
Even with more money, there would be little to buy. With rice in short supply, Sukarno urged his people to cultivate a taste for corn and sweet potatoes. That could help to balance the diet of rat meat recommended by Communist Party Chairman D. N. Aidit, executive chairman of Indonesia's antirodent drive. "If the peasants start eating rats eagerly," said Aidit, "the rats will be wiped out, and there will even be a shortage of rats...