Word: canings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ever had to help Dan find his way around. He is rather well acquainted with Cambridge Streets, as can seasonably be expected after 27 years, and his cane serves to keep him on the track...
...Noting such bold banking talk, the scrappy little New York Daily News (circulation: 1,550,000) ran a cartoon to point up an accompanying editorial titled: "The Bankers Are a Funny Race." Emerging from a cyclone cellar in the cartoon was the pot-bellied figure with cane, cigar, spats and silk hat that traditionally represents the banker. The figure, however, wore neither pants nor coat and only the tattered remnants of a shirt around his neck. In confusion about the figure lay twisted steel rails, bits of machinery, other wreckage left by a black twister labeled "Rugged Individualism." Disappearing...
...Biological Station in Cuba, located near Cienfuegos, is devoted to research in tropical plants with 100 acres given over to the production of economic plants and experimental grounds used for developing improved varieties of sugar cane. This station is maintained in connection with the Arnold Arboretum in Boston for Harvard graduate students and often in the field of biology...
...starch called inulin. If the tubers are heated and squeezed by a giant hydraulic press, the inulin can be recovered and converted into a syrup which yields fructose, the sugar in fruits. Since this sugar is the most easily oxidized of all sugars and twice as sweet as cane or beet sugar, it might be assimilated in small quantities by diabetics, might flavor the food of fat persons who wish to reduce. Properly cultivated, dahlias yield as much sugar, acre for acre, as do sugar beets...
...means of speedy locomotion. This, far from spoiling the sport of harness racing, has acted as a stimulus, by removing all its stigma of utility. Always popular in rural communities, harness racing lost favor in Eastern cities in the years following the War. In 1926, William H. Cane, a rich contractor and trotting fancier of Goshen, helped promote the first Hambletonian, named for the famed sire of 95% of U. S. harness racers, for the undreamed of purse of $73,000. The Hambletonian, which promptly became the Kentucky Derby of trotting, has lately caused an astonishing revival of the sport...