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...black, rich delta land of Mississippi, which produces 7% of the nation's cotton crop, Southern whites last week were lifting their own loads, toting their own bales. In the hills, white women and small boys sweated behind the mules down the long hot rows of cotton and corn...
...Archives of Internal Medicine they told how they stir up a witches' broth containing all the essential amino acids (ammonia-containing compounds from which proteins are built), dextrose sugar, salt, gelatin, emulsified cottonseed or corn oil, water. This brew is fed in varying amounts, depending on how many calories are needed. Vitamins are given separately. Though some patients claim the stuff disagrees with them, it is actually so digestible that patients can be fed at night without waking them up. (The stomach tube stays in place day & night...
...jurors take to their task like hens to corn. They arbitrate for women with fickle husbands, wives wanting to know whether to move in with mother, wives with husbands who drink...
...crop protector, it is deadlier and longer lasting than other insecticides, has been found effective against potato beetles, cabbage worms, apple codling moths, Japanese beetles, aphids, fruit worms, even corn borers - against which previous insecticides have proved to be failures...
Avenida Corrientes, the local Broadway, was dimmed to save electricity; locomotives eked out their coal with wood and corn-on-the-cob. Excepting such details, the war had brought nothing but boom to Buenos Aires. Legitimate businessmen prospered; well-heeled opportunists fattened. Hard-eyed Fritz Mandl, fabulous Austrian munitions magnate and former husband of Hedy Lamarr, had a new and equally beautiful wife. Hand-in-glove with the militarists, he manufactured weapons the U.S. would not supply, and kept Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, exiled Austrian bullyboy...