Word: aroostook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Public health officers were amazed when George W. Leadbetter, State Health Commissioner of Maine, reported that there were 5,000 cases of scurvy among the lumberjacks and farmers of Aroostook County, on the northern border of the State. Reason : thousands of Aroostookians are unemployed, with no money to buy lemons or oranges, and not many of them had taken the trouble to grow and can tomatoes, which are especially rich in Vitamin...
...although he appreciated Federal aid, Commissioner Lead-better's medical director, Dr. George Holden Coombs, made it clear that proud Republican Maine could solve her scurvy problem her own way. "Vitamin C," he said, ". . . is present in the potatoes which are raised in large quantities there in Aroostook. But it is readily lost if the potato is cooked after peeling. Vitamin C is readily soluble in water. We would seek to educate housewives to-use such water in the making of soup ... so that it may give its Vitamin C to the human system...
...Farmer "Bot" Smith's hilltop field at Fort Fairfield, Aroostook County, Maine, with a crowd of 4.000 standing around in the rain to watch, long-armed Republican Governor Lewis O. Barrows of Maine peeled off his coat to engage short-armed Democratic Governor Barzilla W. Clark of Idaho in a five-minute contest at picking potatoes-a prime product of both their States. Governor Clark pitched his spuds forward into his basket; Governor Barrows scrabbled backwards into a basket between his long, straddled legs (see cut). The winner: Maine's Barrows, 201 lbs. to 197 lbs. He apologized...
...logical man to go to Washington as A.A.R.'s president in 1934. It did not take him long to establish headquarters on 17th & H Streets. It is full of cheap, golden oak desks and big wall calendars and the unmistakable fumigant which characterizes railroad offices from the Bangor & Aroostook to the Alaska Railroad. President Pelley's own quarters are decorated with an illuminated testimonial from New Haven employes which he prizes highly. "You can always fool the guys above you," he says, "but you can't fool the guys below...
...Important ones: Delaware & Hudson; Atlantic Coast Line; Louisville & Nashville; Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis; Southern; Bangor & Aroostook...