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Conversion of farm surplus products as wheat, corn, rye, rice, potatoes, beets, grapes, apples, peaches, molasses, etc. into denatured alcohol to replace a very small percentage, say not more than 5%, of gasoline or motor fuel...
Wilbur--"That's Gratitude." The perennial revival of Frank Craven's whimsical comedy of farm life in the Land of the Fall Corn...
...live in the ugly, Victorian Chancellor's House on the campus proper, on University Heights overlooking the Harlem River. Here, doubtless, he will play badminton, at which he excels, and be accessible and agreeable to all who visit him. He will find his students far different from the corn-fed stalwarts of Illinois, the more so as he goes southward among N. Y. U.'s five scattered major centres. On the Heights there are: fraternity houses and dormitories; a genial campus policeman named John Quigley who was a fast friend of the late Sir Thomas Lipton; the famed...
...Richard Grant White (father of Stanford White who designed most of the N. Y. U. buildings on the Heights) and many another pioneer Greenwich Villager. Today the Washington Square College is N. Y. U.'s third largest division, with more than 6,600 students, even less clean and corn-fed than the students on the Heights...
Domestic Allotment, as passed by the House, also included peanuts (by one vote), rice and butter fat, thereby upsetting the "exportable surplus" theory. Efforts to put corn, blackstrap molasses, flaxseed and goats into H. R. 13,991 were beaten. Instead of leaving enforcement to each community the bill turned over the whole job to the Secretary of Agriculture and a swarm of Federal Agents whose duty it would be to watch the doings on each & every one of the 6,300,000 U. S. farms. Bounties would not be apportioned by States and then counties, but would be paid...