Word: cornstalks
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Lindsay, Okla. (pop. 3,018), farmers' trucks lumbered into the streets last week with hundreds of bales of an odd-looking crop: a thin cornstalk that seemed in need of a haircut. It was broomcorn, the dry, tasteless straw from which 45 million brooms a year are made. As rapidly as the trucks drew up to the curb, buyers pulled test brushes out of the bales and began bidding. They made a clean sweep of the stocks, and sent the price up to an alltime average high of $400 a ton v. $255 last year...
...spare as a cornstalk. His greyness of face was due to an intestinal bug which he had picked up during his most recent trip to Japan. Partly because of his own demands to be shown everything, he was sorely overworked. He had been through years of terrifying strain. Once he said he did not think he could keep it up "if the end weren't in sight." By the end he meant his date of retirement from the J.C.S.: August 1951. His deep-seated calm probably accounted for his durability...