Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South plow under one-third of its cotton crop. The idea was not new. It had been suggested and summarily dismissed at a cotton conference at Austin, Tex. fortnight ago. Stocky little Governor Theodore Gilmore Bilbo of Mississippi had revamped it into a suggestion that planters simply abandon one out of every three rows in the fields. Within 24 hours the Farm Board had filched the Bilbo idea (without credit) and offered it to the Governors of the 14 cotton-growing States as a solution to the cotton problem. Chairman Stone of the Board signed telegrams that went to Montgomery...
...Daredevil pluck, ultra rapidity of thought and movement, cool calculation and reckless abandon, honor blended with determination- these are some of the demands and features of the great, clean national game. Through the long Dark Ages of serfdom, hurling remained with us as a bulwark second only to our national language in preserving our subdued and suppressed individuality...
...week it was her seventh championship. Small, thin and wiry, she had 70 hits for a world's record score of 426 in the first National Round. Mrs. Cummings became a toxophilite at the age of nine; now in her late 20's, she shoots with placid abandon from an orthodox position with her heels at right angles to a line drawn from the gold. Observers were somewhat surprised to find that Mrs. Cummings had a close rival last week- pretty 17-year-old Dorothy Duggan of Greenwich, Conn., who set a world's record...
...summer Thomas Alva Edison had been ailing at his Llewellyn Park home and laboratory near West Orange, N. J. Fortnight ago the heat wave forced him to abandon his rubber-from-goldenrod experiments (TIME, Dec. 16, 1929) and devote his energies to keeping cool. One hot day last week an automobile was ordered to take him driving. Waiting for it, the 84-year-old inventor suddenly seemed to doze off. He had collapsed. Sons Theodore, Thomas Alva Jr., Charles and Mr. Edison's daughter & son-in-law, Mr. & Mrs. John Eyre Sloan, bustled about excitedly.* Doctors arrived from Morristown...
General Aviation will speed completion of its contract to build 15 twin-motored observation and bomber planes for the Army, five flying boats for the Coast Guard. Then it will abandon the Fokker name, probably will concentrate on the development of an entirely new type of transport plane for civil...