Word: corns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alliterative and unlikely combination of Cadillacs, Chevrolets and corn stirred Capitol Hill last week as New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating took to the Senate floor to defend the well-publicized trip of a Mr. Smith, who went to Washington in a Cadillac bought with federal money he got for not growing corn...
Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman had already scoffed at Farmer-Businessman William T. Smith's trip as "a partisan propaganda stunt"-which it clearly was. He had also protested that Smith was hardly a typical corn farmer-which he never claimed to be. But Smith's stunt was still singularly effective. Last year he grew 262 acres of corn on his 1,200-acre dairy and poultry farm at Big Flats, N.Y., where he also owns a restaurant and has varied business investments. This year, in protest against the Government's subsidy program, he agreed to take...
...alternately scourged by drought and swamped by flood. The rains are intermittent to the point where the Jaguaribe River, one of the region's most important, is known as the "world's longest dry river." Along the coast, the old landowning families employ sharecroppers to raise cane, corn and cotton on relatively productive land, keep their workers bound by insuring that they are forever in debt to the plantation store. In the dry inland area, more than half of the 26 million people are regularly reduced to living on cactus flour; large numbers line the roads...
...rowed better than two miles to the foot of a snow-splotched mountain on the western shore, hacked out the underbrush, laid down a floor of pine boughs, and put up their tent. By nightfall they had a campfire blazing (disdaining such backyard aids as starter fuel), and ate corn roasted in the husk, ash-baked potatoes, hamburgers, cold beer (iced in the lake) and hot coffee...
...Texas legislature stripped him of the right to run for public office again, Farmer Jim decided to run his wife instead. In the campaign. Jim Ferguson did most of the talking, made no effort to hide his scheme to govern Texas in his wife's name. The corn pone slogans reeked of duality: "Me for Ma," and "Two Governors for the price...