Word: caning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coal, according to Mr. Butler, is selling for less than cost, Standard Oil is a philanthropic institution, and the 'Big Five' packers are dead broke. Only the tariff, says Mr. Butler, is protecting the innocent beet sugar trust from the terrible Cuban cane sugar trust, when everybody knows that both are controlled by the same bunch of American financiers...
...proposal is advanced to make synthetic lumber on a wholesale scale out of waste sugar-cane fibre and other such industrial byproducts. B. G. Dahlberg of Chicago is the proponent of this idea and a frank enthusiast over its practical possibilities...
...largest Yale flag ever seen flew from the mast of the Whileaway, Payne Whitney's yacht, but the largest Harvard pennant seen that day was on the end of a cane carried by Miss Barbara Whitney on the observation train. Miss Whitney is to be married to Barklie McKee Henry, Harvard Captain...
...young Italian who had been deaf for several months smiled and heard. An old man threw away his cane. "I haven't walked in many years," said he. Dr. Bell, graduate of Toronto University, said he had cured 5,000 people between Denver and New York...
...beer, shook hands formally with each Monarchy man who was presented to him. Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz tripped timorously into the Reichstag. Photographers tried to "snap" him as he went, but in his well-known genial manner, he dispersed them with a few deft fencing movements of his cane. Then, after everyone had trooped into the Reichstag Chamber, Herr Bock, aged 78, oldest Reichstag member, rang a bell to signify that the second Reichstag of the German Republic was in session for the first time. The Communists evidently felt that this was a signal for celebration, for they broke...