Word: blackness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sioux Indians are now demanding $700,000 from the U.S.Government for alleged confiscation of their lands in the Black Hills district, wherein stands the Summer White House...
...juvenile book called Little Black Sambo there is a character called "Black Mumbo". She is the mother of "Little Black Sambo". Doubtless a copy of this book has reached King Michael...
...dinner at the Machinery Club, Manhattan. At their head was Rex Beach, another gentleman who has turned his two-fisted, eminently practical attention to things so various as gold-digging in Alaska and writing popular fiction in the U. S. Mr. Beach lately acquired large tracts of rich black soil near winter Park, Fla. He studied at Rollins College from 1891 to 1896 and is president and guiding spirit of Rollins alumni...
...start with, we will collect 1,000 cats. Each cat will average twelve kittens a year. The skins will sell for from ten cents for the white ones to 75¢ for the pure black. We will have about twelve million skins to sell at an average of 30¢ apiece, making our revenue about $10,000 per day, gross...
...Whether in the Black Sea and Mediterranean areas it may replace Rumanian oil has nothing to do with the question. That argument belongs to the red herring class unless Vacuum Oil Co. believes (which she does not) that because the Vacuum or the Standard of New York have decided to give (in their trade) Russian oil a preference over Rumanian oil, the Rumanian producers are going to curtail their production...