Word: corns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...around Thanksgiving that the square-bowed towboat Cooperative Vanguard revved up its diesels in St. Paul and headed down the Mississippi, bound for St. Louis. In its charge: an unwieldy string of 15 barges, each filled with 1,500 tons of corn, soybeans or other grains that were being rushed to market late in the navigation season to capitalize on rising prices. The 680-mile trip usually takes six to ten days, depending on the traffic at the 26 locks and dams along the way. This time the floating entourage did not reach its destination. A sudden blast of arctic...
...freeze-up has bottom-line consequences. The idle towboats and barges eat up about $5,000 a week in (diesel fuel, insurance fees, crew salaries and supplies. Meanwhile, the barge lines must sublease other boats to carry cargo on existing contracts. What is more, corn and soybean prices have jumped 10? to 15? per bu. in some markets, but the grain companies cannot cash in. Agri Industries, a large Des Moines grain concern, has ten barges of corn and five barges of soybeans worth about $3.85 million stuck in the river. "It's going to be costly, no question...
...cavalcade of King-inspired fright fests about to stop. Firestarter just finished shooting in Wilmington, N.C., for May release, and Children of the Corn, based on a King short story, is also scheduled to open next spring. Meanwhile, the busy author is adapting his 1978 novel The Stand for Director George Romero, and has provided five original stories for Creepshow II, a sequel to the horror omnibus he wrote (and co-starred in) two years ago. Indeed, Hollywood seems ready to snap up virtually anything King sets to paper short of his grocery list-and there is no guarantee some...
March 10--Meselson, after weeks of poring over snow samples, declares that the source of the coloration is not a Harvard chem lab at all but The Corn Popper on Mt. Auburn St., whose "secret process" for flavoring popcorn strawberry, cinnamon and blueberry involves releasing puffs of food coloring, cinnamon and blueberry involves releasing puffs of food coloring into the atmosphere. In developing a new line, "We got a little out of control, I guess," apologizes the store owner...
...Nuclear Saints performed several experiments, one knitted a blue and maize "nose cone warmer" to protect missiles from the cold of winter. Another tried to create life from Frito's Corn Chips and refried beans...