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...January 1942 the U.S. has its greatest supply of food in all history. A two-year store of wheat lies heavy in the big concrete granaries of Chicago and Minneapolis, in the steel bins, like sawed-off oil tanks, which dot the Midwestern countryside. Rude, slatted corn cribs groan from overloading as well as frost: the U.S. has enough corn for 18 months...
...sows will farrow in the spring, farmers have begun to think about the hog shelters they will have to slap together, of boards in the shape of inverted Vs or lean-tos thrown against fence corners. Everywhere barns are piled high with hay, oats, alfalfa and corn to feed the new crop of pigs and calves...
Liquor stills normally use neither cane syrup nor molasses; they use grain (mostly corn). This is plentiful, but expensive. To make alcohol profitable for the distillers, OPA last month raised the price ceiling from...
...only will the powdermakers get alcohol, but they will get it fast. Early last month four freight cars bulging with corn rolled up to National Distillers' big Carthage distillery in Cincinnati. Less than 96 hours later this corn was alcohol gurgling into a waiting railroad tank car; 48 hours later the alcohol was being piped into an Indiana powder plant...
Although it is "the first time anyone ever moved in on my brain," Sugarpuss turns out to be just what the encyclopedists need. They discover that the bed each of them has been sleeping in is a snoose, that long-time-no-see is just Indi an corn, that "stick close to the Ameche" means mind, the telephone, etc. Yum-yum, however, upsets the entire establishment. Sugarpuss demonstrates it to Professor Potts, and they wind up married...