Word: canings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been able to take all of it. Shortage of shipping forced this country to reduce its normal consumption and to enforce rationing. Moreover, sugar has been taken in large quantities from Hawaii and from Puerto Rico, where some U.S. ships have to go anyway, and pampered domestic beet and cane producers turned in a record crop. Hence the U.S. carryover in Cuba now amounts to about 1,700,000 tons...
...President of the United States labored up the long ramp to the Speaker's dais, leaning on the arm of his military aide Major General Edwin M. Watson. He grasped the edge of the reading stand with one big hand, discarded his thick mahogany cane, slapped down his old black notebook. For two minutes his audience-the Congressmen, the diplomats, the Cabinet, the dignitaries and plain people in the galleries-applauded for this stouthearted man who cannot walk, yet does...
...Porter broke both his legs in a riding accident. With his legs in casts, and facing amputation of one, he wrote the music for You Never Know in a record-breaking four weeks. He has undergone 30 operations on his legs since, still has both, gets about with a cane...
...jpbj may arm himself with cow dung and shingles at the respectful distance of 40 paces, standing with his face to the wind. . . ." The "jpbj" was, as all Mississippians knew, Judge Paul B. Johnson (later Governor), Sullens' bitterest political foe. In May 1940 Johnson attacked Sullens with a cane in a Jackson hotel lobby; both men were bloodied in the ensuing battle...
...girl." At school Salvador was the only child to be brought "hot milk and cocoa . . . in a magnificent thermos bottle wrapped in a cloth embroidered with my initials." Surrounded by poor children, Salvador wore "a sailor suit with insignia embroidered in thick gold," always carried a "flexible new bamboo cane adorned with a silver dog's head...