Word: backing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Continued fog, and the necessity of signing WPA authorizations, obliged the President to give up visiting the Labrador coast, turn back across the Gulf of St. Lawrence, head for Annapolis and Washington...
...author of Carry Me Back to Old Virginny was a native of Flushing, L. I. The son of one of the first U. S. Negro college graduates (Oberlin '45), Bland himself attended Washington's Howard University. Handsome and honey-voiced, he could not stay away from music. Because white men in blackface hogged the field of U. S. minstrel shows, Bland did not get very far in his U. S. minstrel career. In London, however, where he went as end man with Billy Kersands' Minstrel Troupe, he made a big hit, earned $10,000 a year...
...rubber industry in 1939 is no longer in the age of Cheops. It is quite ready to mass-produce upwards of 65,000,000 tires a year, if and when full production comes back. Its complaint is that while it is set up to serve an expanding economy, the public is now buying at the rate of about 50,000,000 tires a year. In the first half of 1939, the industry sold 9,217,000 tires at little enough profit to the hard-bargaining auto companies, and 17,188,000 tires at a better markup to the public. Last...
Landon in the back yard...
...Shropshire seat of pig-mad, sieve-memoried Clarence, ninth Earl of Emsworth, is once more the scene of action, and the threatened abduction of his prize porker, the Empress of Blandings, is again a mainspring of the plot. Before the final exposure, young love is triumphant and the Empress back snuffling...