Word: canings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cane chairs and a sofa in the bright-colored little sunroom, where...
Aging, grey Convict James Monroe Smith, ex-president of Louisiana State University, who tried suicide by slashing a vein in his foot with a razor blade while he sat in a jail bathtub (TIME, Nov. 27), was given a machete, set to work chopping sugar cane at Louisiana's Angola Prison Farm...
Included are many of the properties used in the technicolor film, produced last year, including a hand-painted rubber shovel used in the graveyard murder scene, a balsa wood cane used in a fight sequence, Injun Joe's wig, and one of Bocky Thatcher's costumes...
...tons of lead; 12,600,000 pounds of nickel; 619,434 bales of cotton; 100,000,000 sq. ft. of hardwood; 19,718,000,000 gallons of gasoline; 16,000,000 Ibs. of wool; 6,300,000 lbs. of mohair; 256,000 cattle hides; 590,000 tons of sugar cane; 1,115,000 bushels of corn; 4,828,200 lbs. of turpentine; 18,590 lbs. of beeswax; 36,000 hogs. The oil industry, most extraordinary and dramatic of them all, with the pumps slowly chugging in the exhausted fields of Pennsylvania, with the wells sinking two miles deep in California...
...state (the subject of some 100 early pages) the Kikuyu people were well-built, well-adjusted savages, who observed strict tribal laws combining communal ownership of land with private initiative as regards goats and wives, the latter being worth about 30 of the former plus a batch of sugar-cane beer. Occasionally they fought a battle with the tall, handsome Masai. Their medicine man shrewdly advised them on all important matters...