Word: belt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Demonstration of the feasibility and advisability of taking radio equipment into the North, and of the efficiency of short-wave sets in overcoming the belt of static that affects long-wave communication from within the Arctic Circle...
...former to 65.6 on the latter date. Nevertheless, the crop was estimated at 13,566,000 bales-only 22,000 bales under the July 16 figure. Losses in Texas owing to drought have apparently been practically offset by gains in more easterly portions of the cotton belt...
...amiable vagrant plays Nick-Carter-to-the-rescue of a nearly-swindled oil heiress in the cactus belt...
...Department of Agriculture came out of a brown study and announced its June estimates for 1925 grain crops. The most interest was displayed in the wheat estimate, for the emissaries of agriculture traveling through the wheat belt had found the winter wheat, which constitutes about two thirds of the wheat produced in this country, short of stalk, thin in stand†, short of head-, with heads not well filled or empty...
...beat his own record at Dijon, last week, he saw flames bursting from the motor. Prompt work with the fire extinguisher apparently stopped the fire. In a hurried descent he found himself "pancaking" upon Liegard Woods. Still 100 ft. or more from the ground, Captain Clauzat undid his belt, and a moment later jumped 15 ft. into the branches of a tree. He alighted without so much as a scratch, but saw with horror that his plane, likewise in the treetops, had burst into flames...