Word: corns
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...resident of Fort Washington, Pa., Smith is presently Chairman of the Board of the Girard Trust Corn Exchange Bank of Philadelphia. After receiving his LL.B. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1925, he practiced law in Philadelphia before serving in the Navy during World War II. He is a trustee of the St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., and a member of the Harvard Overseers' Committee on University Resources...
...vote against Freeman's program cut across all regional lines. Of the nation's top wheat-producing states-Kansas, North Dakota. Montana, Oklahoma and Washington-only North Dakota, with 65.8% in favor, even came close to giving Freeman a two-thirds majority. Among the so-called corn-belt states, those west of the Mississippi tended to favor the Freeman program, although not by two-thirds. In these states -Iowa, Missouri, South Dakota, Minnesota and Nebraska-the price of corn often follows the price of wheat. Many farmers plainly feared that lower wheat prices would pull down corn prices...
...eastern corn-belt states were still another story. Michigan, Ohio. Illinois and Indiana cast about 300,000 votes, or one-fourth of the national total, and in each state the returns went lopsidedly against Freeman's proposals. In these states, the secret to successful farming is flexibility. Farmers there like to shift from crop to crop-mainly wheat, corn and soybeans-as prices and supply conditions change. But under Freeman's plan, a farmer's past wheat production would determine his marketing quota; farmers were apprehensive that establishing this wheat "history" would lock them into wheat production...
...giant has never really wavered from President Harper's original aim: grown-up teaching and research. In "schizoid" Midwest fashion, as Orientalist John A. Wilson put it not long ago, Chicagoans "pound on our chests and proclaim fiercely that we are the corn belt or the pivotal center of the country or the home of American nationalism or the 'hog butcher of the world.' Yet secretly we long to out-Harvard Harvard, to out-Oxford Oxford, and to out-Sorbonne the Sorbonne as a citadel of pure intellectuality...
...taxes, spends ten times more per capita than Britain on such welfare state services as medical care and education for its citizens. It has been transformed by oil from a barren land of mud huts into a booming oasis of commerce, where trees are planted as casually as corn and once-desert land on its capital's outskirts goes for $500 a square yard. Kuwait has a peculiar kind of problem: it has so much money stashed away that it does not quite know what to do with...