Word: grains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such buying, the U.S. Government had become the nation's No. 1 warehouse, currently stuck with more corn, wheat and cotton than that held by aU the private firms in the nation. Among the items laid up in Government storehouses, grain elevators and cold-storage caves...
Pinky. The most skillful propaganda entertainment to come out of Hollywood's current preoccupation with the plight of the U.S. Negro; starring Jeanne Grain (TIME...
...only complain, criticize, claim it can do the job better and more efficiently. Under present conditions it seems doubtful whether it can find anything to offer that its members would accept or the American voters would take at face value. The Republican Party worked out to the last grain its vein of success and for the present it is through...
...system. First, says RCA, the CBS pictures are "degraded." This means that CBS, to increase the number of pictures per second and thereby avoid flicker, has had to reduce the number of scanned lines in each picture from 525 to 405. Thus, the "definition" is reduced and the grain of the picture is made coarser, like a newspaper cut compared to an illustration in a slick-paper magazine...
Chicagoans had heard much about two of the three, multimillionaire Grain Merchant James Norris, owner of Detroit's Red Wing hockey team, and Charles Deere Wiman, president of the century-old John Deere Plow Co. and brother of Theatrical Producer Dwight Deere Wiman. Virtually unknown was spruce Henry Crown, 53, who took his place (with Norris) on the Rock Island's executive board last week, and began to help run the railroad...