Word: corns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fiercest Heart (20th Century-Fox) was evidently made in the hope that the common Hollywood oat, transplanted to a South African setting, would produce a fine cash crop, especially if mixed with plenty of corn. But the crop is a washout...
Farmer Smith's Corn...
...Passed in the House and Senate and sent to the President a compromise farm bill providing a mandatory 10% cut in wheat acreage and continuing for another year the present voluntary corn and grain reduction programs. Although the President had little choice but to sign the bill, it was a far cry from the program recommended by his Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman. Among the Freeman proposals turned down by the Congress: a scheme for setting up farmer-Government committees to set subsidy levels for each commodity...
Secretary Freeman snorted that such corny humor titillates only the many who are ignorant about the Government's farm program, but he quickly demonstrated that he was not above taking part in similar stunts himself. Five Illinois corn and soybean farmers got so mad reading about Farmer Smith's Cadillac that they jumped into a 1959 Chevrolet, drove all night and arrived in Washington the next afternoon to complain that Smith was not really a farmer at all, and was "creating a bad impression on city folks." The travelers were a motley band two were Republicans, three were...
...paintbox and easel, he looked like a peasant of the south of France, in corduroy coat and trousers. But enlarged in the statue, this corduroy looks like the bark of a tree. It looks like the texture he used in his Arles paintings, the great big scratches in his corn and wheatfields. Everything about him is so strikingly interesting. I did it with enormous enthusiasm...