Word: huskings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ordinary farmers are pleased if they husk 100 bushels of corn in a ten-hour day. That Carl Carlson husked only 21 bushels in his 80 minutes last week was due to poor conditions rather than to technical inferiority to his famed younger brother Elmer. Closest thing in the U. S. to an efficient cornhusking machine are Carl, Elmer and two other Carlson brothers, who will be favorites in future cornhusking championships. Hauled onto a platform last week to get his $100 prize money, Carl Carlson was so excited that he mistook the loudspeaker microphone for a radio outlet. Said...
...normal: 2,500,000,000), smallest since 1881. Buyers scouring the country for corn were finding that farmers were not selling, needed far more feed than they had grown. Husking bees had been postponed for want of ears to husk. And in the Chicago grain pit, traders suddenly realized that outstanding sales of corn for September delivery were double the supply in terminal grain elevators. Suddenly corn bounced up 3⅞? per bu., nearly the full 4? limit allowed by the Chicago Board of Trade...
...great issue under Roosevelt I, Senator Borah was in the thick of the fight. Since then political ideology has moved on into fresher fields, more social than economic, with the result that the Idahoan of 1906 is left battling a foe which to 1936 liberals is but hollow husk...
...still has hopes that she may prove to be an actress, she is still hampered by the same old stereotyped parts in implausible plots. At any event, she is not just a simple German girl, she is a woman with considerable charm and magnificent stage presence. Under the husk of an artificial and assumed manner she may some day reveal something more than a pleasant pucker of the lips, a husky feminine bass voice, a pair of legs, and an engaging way of drawling "off-ten", "yesss...
...really is an icebox. The outer walls-4 ft. thick-are of brick, 8 in. of cork, an air space and concrete. Within that well-insulated casing is an inner structure of ten rooms. The inner building has its own, separate foundations, is further insulated from the outer husk by 6 in. of dead air. Thermostat control and automatic air conditioners maintain the ten rooms of the icebox at any desired temperature and humidity. Year-round humidity will be kept at between 35% and 45%. Temperature will not vary more than one-tenth of one degree from...