Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Federal Farm Board agreed upon a $9,000,000 loan, half from its own resources, half from California banks, to grape and raisin growers to assist them in marketing the 1929 crop. Since Prohibition the grape industry has boomed, vineyards have been doubled, overexpansion has occurred...
Some grape-growing industrialists resent the activity of vineyardists who sell their juice for winemaking. To the Federal Farm Board last week they sent as their representative Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, onetime Assistant U. S. Attorney-General, to explain such "questionable practices," to try to induce the Board to withhold loans to growers who attempt to evade the intent of Prohibition. Farm Board Chairman Legge explained that his Board had nothing to do with Prohibition...
Fortnight ago the greatest British cotton strike since the War ended. In Manchester, Blackburn, Oldham, a halfmillion Lancashire cotton workers trudged from their dingy yellow brick houses back to the mills, agreed to abide by the decision of an Arbitral Board of Five: two workers, two employers and an umpire (TIME...
...five members of the Arbitral Board agree," said Justice Swift, "that the cotton industry is in an exceedingly depressed condition needing an immediate palliative...
...Martino. president of the Augusteo Orchestra and the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, who will head the European delegations. Another noble cooperator, the Marquis Tokugawa of Japan, will chairman a Far Eastern Committee. Music Patrons Otto Hermann Kahn and George Eastman will serve on the U. S. board. In conjunction with the festival a technical exposition will be held for manufacturers of instruments, records, talking films...