Word: corns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this country would go through the ceiling." World food stocks are now unusually low because of a combination of poor crops and rising demand. Chicago Grain Analyst Conrad Leslie believes lifting the Soviet grain embargo would lead to 18% to 20% price hikes for commodities such as meat, corn, beans and wheat in the U.S. this year, rather than the 12% to 15% increase now expected...
Entering the new year at full strength and with high hopes for an upset victory, the Crimson went the stale corn flake route at McHugh Forum last night, reaching high into the nether regions of ineptitude to come up with a 6-2 loss to Boston College...
Like factory and office workers, farmers suffered through a year of upheaval. Following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, President Carter suspended shipment of $2.6 billion worth of corn, wheat and soybeans to the Soviet Union. Farm prices immediately collapsed, with the price of corn falling by 10% within three days of trading, the price of soybeans by 8% and that of wheat by 9%. Many farmers suffered a second disaster when a searing summer heat wave and drought scorched crops and pasture lands from Texas to North Dakota. The temperature in Dallas was over 100° for 53 days...
Willard Scott is the saving grace of Today? His effect is more like pouring corn syrup over a previously digestible bacon-and-eggs breakfast. The freshest moment I've heard on the show occurred when Mariette Hartley told Willard to go and eat his flower...
...currently being marketed through some 10,000 service stations owned or supplied by Texaco, Mobil, Amoco, Phillips and a few smaller independent petroleum companies. It is unlikely, however, that Americans will turn to pure alcohol in place of gasoline. The U.S. does not have a surplus production of sugar. Corn, the U.S.'s most plentiful crop, contains far less potential energy per ton than sugar. Moreover, any large boost in alcohol production from corn might drive up already surging domestic food prices...