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Since 1906 pellagra has been a horror to the South. In the springtime it strikes people whose winter diet has been confined too closely to corn and pork. The first symptoms: dizziness, headaches, diarrhoea, painful skin rash...
...with agricultural statistics to establish the benefits U. S. husbandmen have received from Prohibition. His best statistic: before Prohibition every U.S. citizen drank 42 4/10 gal. of milk per year; today each drinks 60 gal. He argued that grains which once went into liquor now make breakfast foods, that corn is higher in value now than before 1920, that the price of grapes has increased. Mr. Taber painted farm conditions in such cheerful colors that he seemed sorely embarrassed when a Wet committee member produced a statement of his last April when he was seeking farm relief. Then...
During 1929 a great merger wave swept through U. S. banking, causing special activity in Manhattan where many a big combine was effected. With the stockmarket break, an abrupt end came to the move, its finale being the collapse of the National City-Corn Exchange merger. Last week there were rumors of another deal of first magnitude, and bankers predicted that the merger wave will soon be in full force again...
...Corn Products...
...everyone who entered, searching for pistols. In a parking space nearby a sergeant of artillery elegantly picked his teeth while black-eyed Indian children gazed, owl solemn, at the battery of cannon under his charge. Inside the stadium 50,000 people bought hot frijoles (baked beans roasted in corn husks) and cold beer from shrill peddlers, gazed impatiently at the platform garlanded with red and white carnations, green palm leaves, where sat the entire Mexican Congress, frock-coated, silk-hatted, and a brave detachment of Generals in navy blue, black and gold braid...