Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jerusalem Artichokes are sunflowers which have a starchy, tuberous root. They flourish in semi-arid regions. Like yams in Southern States, corn in Prairie States, barley in Northern States, potatoes in Idaho and Maine, sugar beets in the West, sorghum in the South, sugar cane in Louisiana, Jerusalem artichokes can be turned into alcohol. If produced on a large scale such alcohol could be produced for from 7 to 10? a gallon, figured Dr. Leo Martin Christensen of Iowa State College. At that price it is cheap enough to mix with gasoline as a motor fuel, especially if any need...
...case was not the money. His father, one of the seven Fisher Body Brothers, has enough of that. Less than seven years ago young Mr. Fisher was a student at Georgetown University. He emerged to become a vice president of one of Detroit's two great arid now defunct banking groups. He emerged from Detroit's banking fiasco with the personal commendation of Jesse Jones tangibly as well as verbally expressed. He was made RFC's representative in Michigan. His elevation to the RFC board, to succeed the late Senator John J. Elaine of Wisconsin...
...buzzed with rumors that Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek might lend His Holiness a few fast bombing planes for an air raid on Tibet's forbidden capital of Lhasa. Last week in Peiping the Panchen Lama chartered a special train, loaded it with food, cash, military supplies arid his elaborate religious gear and chuffed off toward Inner Mongolia, whence he would have to proceed some 2,000 miles by caravan to Lhasa...
Within the next six months, Nippon Yusen Kaisha will have six big fast new freighters plying between Manhattan arid the Orient. At Havre, the French Line is busy prettifying the launched Normandie for her queenship of the seas next summer. But far the busiest shipyards in the world are the British. Next month Her Majesty Queen Mary will travel north to the Clyde there to launch a 73,000-ton monster which in 1936 will take away the Normandie's crown of size. And the name which Queen Mary will cry as she whangs the bottle, will not be Britannia...
...closing days of the 1928 first Congressional session he filibustered mightily against passage of the bill to construct Boulder Dam on the theory that populous California would not pay arid and thinly settled Arizona a fair share for water diverted from the Colorado River. He was bitterly disappointed when the bill passed at the next session. Like many another frontier politician, he dreams of U. S. territorial expansion: three years ago he lustily campaigned for U. S. acquisition of Lower California and a slice of Sonora to straighten out Arizona's southern boundary...