Word: corns
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...areas" and "the most difficult times since the Civil War," Ruff recently moved his wife and eight of his twelve children to a new brick house in Mapleton, Utah, equipped with a wood-burning stove, solar water heater, storage tanks for diesel fuel and gas and two acres of corn and alfalfa...
Vice President Johnson's ties to the Kennedy White House were strained. Bobby and others on J.F.K.'s staff dismissed him as "Uncle Corn Pone." There is much evidence, however, that John Kennedy sincerely liked Lyndon and went out of his way to stroke his ego. There were, for example, those raucous fact-finding trips through Asia and India during which Johnson spurned State Department advice to avoid shaking hands with the unwashed masses. Nothing released his old progressive juices better than a crowd of impoverished farmers waiting for the word...
Joseph D. Corn Tabernacle...
...different. On the remote Long Chi (Dragon's Pond) commune, perched on the lower slopes of 9,000-ft-high Mount Emei, the soil is rocky and dry. Farming is confined to low-yielding terraces that have been carved out of the hills and planted primarily with corn. Peasant incomes are one-third of those on the wealthy Jin Ma commune; they average $44 a year, more than half of which is distributed in grain rather than cash. No one starves, but the commune members eat meat only once a week...
...weather would add no more than one-tenth of 1% to the cost of food this year. The important 1.85 billion bu. winter-wheat crop had already matured before the weather turned bad. In addition, the U.S. holds such huge agricultural reserves, like the 1.7 billion bu. of corn and 901 million bu. of wheat from past good harvests, that there is at present no danger of shortages. The recent years of harvest feasts will permit U.S. agriculture as a whole to survive a relatively short period of drought and heat...