Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dear Jeff." From Boston youngish T. (for Thomas) Jefferson Coolidge went to Washington to become Undersecretary of the Treasury in March 1934, to lend the New Deal his technical knowledge of finance on the long road of borrowing that lay ahead. A descendant of Thomas Jefferson but only the remotest kin, if any, to Calvin Coolidge, "Jeff" Coolidge, despite his staid New England background, qualified for service in the New Deal by his independence in politics, by his vote for Roosevelt in 1932. In the Treasury his job was figuring out the terms on which new loans should be floated...
...produces in Ethiopia, but they were soon boastfully exuberant again when good war news came in from both the North Front and the South. Premature "little rains," not due until next month, made them believe that Allah, Jehovah and their assorted pagan gods were sending the 1936 Rainy Season ahead of time to save Ethiopia. Italy's motor transport was immobilized in many places by the "little rains," wheels spinning impotently in sticky red mud. Sodden and soaked Italian bombing planes could not get off the ground. Only light Italian ships were able to fly in pursuit...
...beaten Russia and was beginning to emulate the West in other ways, its civilization was still essentially Oriental. Grier found it a quaint, delightful country. Its manners charmed, its emotions baffled, its women fascinated him. To his discovery that "in their attitude to sex the Japanese are a millennium ahead," a skeptical fellow-foreigner retorted that emotionally they were an incarnation behind. Grier could not be sure, set himself to solve the puzzle by falling in love right & left...
...fancy cocktail nor a crack train, the Golden Gleam, a product of Mexico, was a double nasturtium, bearing ten petals to the ordinary blossom's five. Alert David Burpee of Philadelphia's W. Atlee Burpee Co. saw here a fine chance-if seized vigorously- to get ahead of his competitors. Sweet-scented but limited to its one glowing color, the Golden Gleam might be produced in various colors if crossbred with common nasturtiums...
...girls were hired to do nothing but pollinate the blossoms. To prevent bees from messing up the experiments with promiscuous pollinations, it was found necessary to clip the petals. In January 1934 Mr. Burpee announced May delivery of seeds for the varicolored, ten-petaled hybrids, a whole growing season ahead of any other breeder...