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Johnson grass, originally and recklessly introduced as a forage crop, is a pest in much of the South, especially in cane fields. Its perennial rootstocks can be clawed up through cultivation, but the pesky seeds keep blowing into cultivated fields from a distance...
...reported . . . there is a surplus of jobless Puerto Ricans in New York. So we proceed to fly several thousand more from Puerto Rico to Michigan, to harvest the sugar-beet crop for sugar which might better have been made from Puerto Rican cane in the first place...
...Orleans Item eleven months ago, he had high hopes of uprooting the morning Times-Picayune and the evening States from their dominating position in the New Orleans newspaper field. But Northerner Stern found that Southerner Leonard Kimball Nicholson * had rooted his two newspapers as firmly as sugar cane; Meanwhile Stern's heavy investments in a bigger staff and a new Sunday edition failed to make the expected handsome payoff: in recent weeks, Stern fired or dropped 13 staffers, was reportedly losing heavily on his Sunday paper. Last week the Item (circ. 99,658) got a helping hand against...
...President beamed and waved his gold-headed cane at the applause and finished his hike without drawing a deep breath; he topped the day off with a speech (see above) to 30,000 people who had gathered along the Mississippi riverfront to dedicate St. Louis' new park, the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial...
Queen Victoria was leaving Cambridge House in London one day in 1850 when a lunatic gave her a whack on the head with a cane, raising a nasty bruise. Popular