Word: corns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...higher, or lower. Nerve-racking enough, but the goods they are buying and selling are extremely volatile, their value subject to human whims, storms in the farm belt, or a boost in interest rates in Washington. Most of the trading takes place in traditional commodities, such as wheat and corn, but in recent years the Board of Trade has added futures in U.S. Treasury bonds and the enticing "Ginnie Maes" (as the Government's National Mortgage Association certificates are blithely called). The Board of Trade is the nation's largest commodities exchange, a market that has become...
That food should be scarce in a city whose harbor waters literally jump with fish and where grain and corn bend in nearby fields is a contradiction. But it is not an uncommon one in young Third World countries where economic pragmatism has been pushed aside by ideology...
...trunk. The 11-ft. ball was shaped by hand, contained with burlap, hog wire, a rope girdle and an oaken tub. Mrs. Myers insisted that the work crew, neighbors and reporters stay for lunch. For three days they worked and ate. There were vegetable soup and chicken corn soup, hot dogs and chocolate cake, green salad, and pears and peaches canned by Mrs. Myers. The neighbors came out every day to watch as their old friend the spruce was gussied up to go to the city...
...Hamilton), the grandfather, is a prickly relic whose security blanket is the whisky bottle under it. His wife Halie (Jacqueline Brookes) is the voice of the nag incarnate. The eldest son Tilden (Tom Noonan) is laconic, even for a neo-Neanderthal. For him, the barren fields yield armfuls of corn and carrots, which are duly shucked, sliced and nibbled onstage...
...since then Forbes has given up his resort idea. Last week, all decked out in lei and tropical duds, he teamed up with Fijian Prime Minister Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara to cut ribbons on some new projects that have to do with raising coconuts and corn and promoting sport fishing...