Word: corns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tacora junkyard when a fellow drove up in this car. I tell you I got a bargain. That was eleven years ago, and this car makes at least $7.25 a day for me. I carry as many as twelve passengers and bags of potatoes, green corn, fish, small pigs and goats, live chickens. Sometimes when the car is full I carry the chickens on my lap." Adds Driver Félix Bernaola, who runs a durable 1928 Ford sedan: "I average 150 miles daily, and in 14 hours I use about 15 gallons of gas and about a quart...
...trying to develop an "alphabet of ornament" that will provoke an emotional revolt against the austerity of modern architecture. In the midway atmosphere of Miami Beach and other resort areas, Lapidus, 57, finds the perfect outlet for the "new sensuality" expressed in his terrazzoed palazzos. "They call my hotels corn," he says proudly, "but they're better than corn. They make people happy, excited, titillated. Vacationers need to feel a sense of adventure. That's why I build my closets so big: people need big closets emotionally...
...fueled this one with ten isolated cigarettes. "When I was writing about the psychological satisfactions of smoking, I'd happily light up," he said. "When I turned to the part on cancer, I'd sadly snuff it out." Business Editor Joe Purtell, who has smoked little since corn-silk days, takes a cigar "when given to me," smoked two while editing the cover story (both were gifts). Purtell's favorite smoking instrument is his ancient, 13-in. churchwarden, now held together by tobacco tar and Scotch tape...
Last year Benson went onto a new corn program that abolished all production controls on corn in return for a modest reduction in the support price. Benson hoped that the lower support price would lead to a smaller crop; instead, farmers increased their corn acreage by a whacking 15%, harvested the biggest, most glutting corn crop in U.S. history. And by last week's new estimates showed a slight increase in 1960 corn acreage rather than the decrease that Benson had fervently hoped for. Barring something about as probable as a midsummer frost in the Midwest, the U.S. faces...
...CROP OUTLOOK is for bumper harvest that may set new record, Department of Agriculture forecasts. Wheat ard corn surpluses will grow bigger as farmers schedule 337 million acres for planting, fewer than 1,000,000 below last year...