Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...natives for transplanting and cultivation. Pecans grow in 37 states but eleven produce the bulk of the crop. No. 1 pecan State is Texas, whose State tree is the pecan. Native pecans are also plentiful in Oklahoma, Louisiana and Mississippi. Most of the improved varieties reach the market from Alabama, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina where tourists find almost as many pecan venders on the roadside as gasoline stations. Pecan trees grow big, old. Near Hohen Solms, La., 40 miles south of Baton Rouge on the Mississippi River, is a tree 13 ft. in diameter. Some pecan trees have...
...negative task of preventing trouble. He kept his head while around him plotters, many of them with Grant's support, worked for war with England and Spain, the annexation of Santo Domingo and Canada. The one real achievement of Grant's Administration was the settlement of the Alabama Claims by the first great arbitration of modern history, in which Fish, able, conciliatory, determined, blocked Sumner's extravagant demand that England pay for the prolongation of the Civil War in the same fashion that he blocked Secretary of War Rawlins' demand for an attack on Spain...
...edge of the little Alabama sawmill town of Hodgetown. Jim and Andrew Tallon grew up in a situation that was set like a time-bomb for some future explosion. Andrew was a powerful, slow-minded, poetic young man who had been laughed at throughout his boyhood because of his harelip and crippled speech. Jim was a wiry, passionate young mill-hand who had defended Andrew all his life. When innocent, Georgia-born Myrtle Bickerstaff came to town and was paired with Andrew at a church social, won his pathetic devotion and fell in love with his brother, she provided...
...Mobile, Ala. in 1894, William March, whose real name is William E. March Campbell, published his first novel, Company K, three years ago, followed it with a strong but uneven study of the psychological effects of a lynching in Come in at the Door. Educated at the University of Alabama, Author March served in the U. S. Marine Corps during the War, got a job with Waterman Steamship Corp. when he was demobilized, traveled over the line for the next ten years, is now vice president of the company stationed in London...
Five men were appointed as instructors and tutors. They are: John D. Ferry of Dawson, Yukon Territory, Canada in Biochemical Sciences; Paul M. A. Linebarger of Washington, D. C. in Government William D. Greene of Dublin, Ireland, in Greek and Latin; Hunter D. Farish, of Camden, Alabama, in History; and Donald O. Hebb, of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, in Psychology...