In preparing corn for home. use, it is reported (8) that 35 percent of the. total ear weight in the husk is removed as husk. and trimmings. Research last year showed that. shelf life of sweet corn could be extended by. trimming the shank (9).
Vladimir Lenin dies. Vladimir Lenin, the architect of the Bolshevik Revolution and the first leader of the Soviet Union, dies of a brain hemorrhage at the age of 54. In the early 1890s, Lenin abandoned his law career to devote himself to Marxist study and the provocation of revolutionary activity among Russian workers.
April 1922: Â·Stalin elected General Secretary of the Communist Party. May 25, 1922: Â·Lenin suffers his first stroke. January 4, 1923: Â·Lenin, in a postscript to his Testament, warns the Party to remove Stalin from his position of power. March 7, 1923: Â·Lenin suffers final stroke, loses his powers of speech. January 21, 1924: Â·Death of Lenin. Stalin survives the reading of the Testament by the Central Committee in May.