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...Corn...
Sirs: I appreciated immensely "Whoa-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho," and have found ample opportunity to quote the impressions of "Swing." However, there is another term that eludes definition-''Corn." Being a pseudo-musician, I have glibly and authoritatively used it without a quaver. But at last one malicious person demanded a translation, and I was pretty well stopped. . . . STEVE HARRISON...
When a musician who is not "hot" tries to play as if he were, his music is "corn...
...earnings of $8,136,000, down from $11,452,000 the year before. Central Hanover Bank & Trust's Chairman George W. Davison briefly announced that profits (exclusive of "substantial" recoveries) amounted to $6.03 on each of its 1,050,000 shares, as against $10.68 per share in 1934. Corn Exchange showed net operating income of $2,666,000 in addition to $2,391,000 profit on real estate and securities sold during the year. Year before Corn Exchange reported net operating income of $2,564,000. But most interesting meetings of the week were held by two banks that...
...Wheat & Corn reacted a few cents last week but grain surpluses are small. Flour was cut as much as $1.38 per bbl. Some bakers cut the price of bread 1? per loaf. In addition to having fewer taxes to absorb, biscuit bakers and packaged food concerns will probably gain from bigger volume at lower prices. Last year their attempts to pass the tax on to the consumers made many customers so mad that they organized "buyers' strikes." Starting as a protest against the high price of meat, these strikes were ultimately directed against nearly all high-priced groceries. Last...