Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jacob mushrooms grow in concrete, aluminum-painted "houses" which are filled with beds of manure compost and kept pitch-dark. Lumps of spawn are pushed into the compost about eight inches apart. In three weeks fine, white, hairlike mycelia extend from top to bottom. Then a "casing" of loam is put on top and in three weeks more the first white pinheads pop out. Each bed bears well for two or three months. Then the tired manure is stripped off, sold to golf courses as a top dressing for $1.50 a ton. The mushrooms themselves, fat, firm and thick...
...admirers of former Chief of Staff Peyton C. March will probably descend upon you in force for your omission of his name from the footnote at the bottom of p. 11, TIME, Aug. 9. If he was not a general then both my memory and my encyclopaedia have failed...
...fissure in the earth split the farm of Harley Robertson, soon widened as its sides fell in, became a canyon 200 ft. deep, its bottom crawling, heaving, puffing. It swiftly swallowed 20 acres of Robertson's farmland. Other fissures snaked across his property, threatened 80 acres more. Salmon Falls Creek ran yellow with volcanic dust and yellow puffs spurted from dry fields. Muffled thunder rose from underground, as though boulders were detaching themselves from the roof of a subterranean cavern and falling to the floor. The first canyon continued growing in the direction of the stream. If it reached...
...There may be also a laccolith: a formation where lava once pooled into a cone. The top crust cooled but the hot material beneath found egress, leaving a bubble formation with the top separated from the bottom by perhaps 1,500 ft. In this case sinking would continue until a box canyon was formed...
...rents fell short of paying off bonds & interest, the Government would chip in up to $20,000,000 a year-an outright subsidy, but a trifle compared to the cost of other Federal efforts to aid the underprivileged. Only tenants qualifying for the new houses would be the rock-bottom 15% of the lower third which President Roosevelt has labeled "ill-housed, ill-clothed, ill-fed"-about 175,000 families earning some $50 a month and paying about $5 rent per room...