Word: canings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington betting until the start of last week was 3-to-1 that the President would veto the Sugar Bill which lobbyists spurred through Congress in its closing days. To domestic growers, both cane and beet, the Bill provided continuance of the quota system limiting raw sugar imports, as well as cash benefits to be paid from a ½?-per-lb. processing tax, and the President was reconciled to holding an umbrella over the growers in the form of a domestic price about three times the world price. But he strenuously objected in principle to that part of the bill...
When Mrs. Eleanor Maher of Oakland, Calif, went out of her house, she left her crippled aunt, Miss Charlotte Parker, 65, alone with her two dogs: Bootsie, a very old bulldog, and Chino, an 18-months-old thoroughbred chowchow. Presently Miss Parker grasped her cane and started to rise from her chair to go into the back yard. Suddenly Chino snapped at her hand. Then he went mad, knocked her down, started gnawing at her. Bootsie was too infirm to be of any help. But Miss Parker's shrieks aroused the neighbors, who called the police. When a patrolman...
...Wednesday some bookmakers' tents blew down and rain made William H. Cane's Good Time track at Goshen, N. Y. a mile triangle of treacherous mud. Only a few sportswriters, accustomed to the racing of running horses in any kind of weather, grumbled when officials decided that the Hambletonian, greatest and richest race for U. S. trotting horses, would not be run that day. Any oldster, munching sandwiches in the Ladies' Aid booth, knew that a trotter, whose right front leg and left rear leg must move in dancing unison,* has no business trying to speed when...
...farm for which the county might have been named, 60-year-old Bunyan Travis lived and labored, sweating in the noonday and sometimes cursing the bread he earned, for Bunyan's acres were scrawny with drought and his back was bad with rheumatism. Finally he got him a cane to hobble around on. Chance came to Farmer Travis last spring when a gang of husky young men from the Southwest put up a derrick on his land and began to drill for oil. On May 23 they brought in an oil well which produced nearly 3,000 barrels...
With that event, refiner-lobbyists would not be the sole losers. They had only been pulling chestnuts out of the fire. They would drop, at least for the time being, only a small share of their tonnage to island refiners, but U. S. beet and cane growers would be without the extended protection of the expiring Jones-Costigan Act, which has helped keep U. S. sugar more than three times as high as the world market price...