Word: beets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most crippled children never go to school, get their lessons from visiting teachers at home or hospital. The man who made Denver's school possible was famed, 88-year-old Capitalist Charles Boettcher (beet sugar, cement), whose grandson, Charles II, was kidnapped seven years ago, ransomed for $60,000. The Boettcher family put up $193,000, enabled Denver's Board of Education to get a PWA grant and build a $384,000 school. Designed in pale green concrete and glass by famed Architect Burnham Hoyt, it was easily the handsomest and best-equipped school for crippled children...
...sickness), infantile paralysis. The animals' viruses bring foot-and-mouth disease, distemper, swine fever, parrot fever, pox diseases of birds. Fish and insects are also attacked by viruses, and no fewer than 135 plant-virus diseases have been described. Most prevalent: tobacco mosaic disease, potato leaf roll, sugar beet curly top. Viruses flourish only in living tissues, cannot be cultured in test tubes...
...Wendell Willkie got some more rest. He lolled on the lawns and terraces of the famous Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs. He flew over the tawny Colorado Rockies (from Central City, where he attended a frontier music festival, to Denver, where he chinned with stockmen and sugar-beet growers). He puttered around the International Typographical Union's stock farm, chumming up to Holstein-Friesian cattle. He chatted with the San Francisco Chronicle's bumptious young Editor Paul Smith. He talked campaign strategy with Colorado's Governor Carr, Iowa's farm-minded Governor Wilson, National Chairman...
Every session of Congress is punctuated by the sniping of seven main sugar groups at each other and the public weal. As the balance of power has worked out since 1934, the Mountain beet lobby has grudgingly accepted something between a 1,342,000 and 1,584,000 ton quota. Another 4,700,000 has gone to the refiners of imported cane, allocated as follows: 2,000,000 tons to Cuba, whose cheap cane competes with domestic beet after paying a .9? tariff; the rest to four duty-free areas, the Philippines (nearly 1,000.000 tons), Puerto Rico...
Maneuvering to up their quotas in the current session, the Mountain beet lobby and its friendly rival, the Cuban cane lobby, have sought to limit imports from U. S.-owned sugar countries. This "unholy alliance" drew Humanitarian Roosevelt's wrath-as it would also draw the wrath of Libertarian Wendell Willkie. President Roosevelt reminded Congress that Hawaiians. Puerto Ricans and Virgin Islanders "are American citizens . . . with local governments that lack the protection of statehood," i.e. Senators...