Word: brownness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Weather. Hot dry days continued throughout the land as farmers despair ingly watched their acres brown under a relentless sun. Even the potent Federal Farm Board was not potent enough to bring the relief that only long soaking rains could give. Corn tassels burned. Live stock on the ranges drank from dwindling water holes. Truck gardeners saw their vegetables shrivel up and die. In many a city officials worried over the water supply. Forest fires licked menacingly through Minnesota, Wisconsin, Idaho, California. Greatest in a score of years had been the July drought...
Prominent in Toledo's mayoralty scramble last week were 30,000 thimbles and many a newspaper clipping. They were the weapons of Candidate George Winters, political foe of Walter Folger Brown, who is not only U. S. Postmaster General but also political potentate of Toledo...
Candidate Winters was assiduously distributing his thimbles among Toledo females. On each thimble was emblazoned the legend: "SEW UP THE MAYOR'S RACE FOR WINTERS!" The clippings he pasted up on the front of his official headquarters?tales of recent Toledo crimes?to remind Toledo voters that Potentate Brown's candidate for reelection, Mayor William T. Jackson, had promised a crime cleanup, had not succeeded. The prize clipping related how the Brown Chief of Police had paid $7 to recover his watch from a pawnshop, whither it had been brought by a thief who had sneaked it from the room...
...advance through Belgium. "We" cross rivers, take towns, shoot rifles. Deep in France, shells displace bullets and flying shrapnel forces "us" to dig into the earth. Bang! rat-a-tat! whack! bang! "My" friend crawls under sheet. Showers of sparks on the ground, then Crash!?a dark brown cloud over the front line. There is a curious noise close by. Something moves under the sheet. A jagged hole in it appears. Boo-oom!?pat-pat-pat! The ground shakes. Gas. Shrieks. Four years of this. Escape: death, a wound, a breakdown, intoxication, an occasional stolen feast...
...Leather Co. (Makes one-third of all the sole, belting and harness leather used in the U. S. In June, William Gibbs McAdoo Jr. resigned as first vice president, remained a director. Last year Hiram S. Brown resigned from the presidency to become head of Radio-Keith-Orpheum. Low hide and leather prices resulted in a first quarter deficit of $843,674. Second quarter even less profitable.) First half, net loss 1,969,439 First half, net profit...