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Hasty Pudding: a mixture of corn meal mush, spiced with salt, and served steaming with milk and molasses. --Theodore Chase in the Harvard Advocate...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: The Roar of the Greasepaint | 2/19/1981 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Embargo's Bitter Harvest | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

...export trade and for relatively higher prices." Meyers predicts that the U.S. will export 1.53 billion bu. of wheat in the current fiscal year, compared with a record 1.38 billion last year. The average price is expected to climb from $3.82 per bu. to more than $4. Exports of corn and other coarse grains are likely to increase from about 73 million metric tons in fiscal 1980 to 76 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Embargo's Bitter Harvest | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

...sight and the result was a bonanza for farmers who had been able to ride out the early months of the embargo. "For the first time in 35 years, I'm out of debt," said Clarence Adams of McHenry, Ill. He had sold 30,000 bu. of corn at more than double the $1.50 per bu. price he had expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Embargo's Bitter Harvest | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Inept Icemen Drubbed by Eagles, 6-2 | 1/7/1981 | See Source »

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