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.
When Lenin died on 21 January 1924, he was acclaimed by Communists as the greatest genius of mankind and the leader and teacher of the peoples of the whole world. Lenin remains a controversial and highly divisive world figure.