Word: dust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Trinity Cathedral. C, New York's Bishop William Thomas Manning, who has found some $140.000 to resume work on his Cathedral of St. John the Divine, proudly announced that the $30.000,000 edifice would be standing when every other building in the present city is dust...
...many other persons, they are no more primarily responsible for wars than was Peter the Hermit, John Brown, or the Austrian Archduke who had himself assassinated to start the World War. You and Senator Nye might as properly blame the Hoover Company and Fuller Brush Company for the Kansas dust storms, although the latter of the two concerns is responsible for The Fuller Brush Man, who is about as all pervading as the dust itself...
...well as AAA and Franklin Roosevelt's plan for extending NRA for two years (see p. 63). Franklin Roosevelt had already snubbed them by sending no message to their meeting. To his newshawks he now cut loose, rubbed the nose of the Chamber of Commerce in the dust, made it the butt of many a biting quip. His chief points...
...were getting their fields in tilth for corn. In the wheat belt, spring wheat was being seeded -two weeks late because of cold. In the northern half of the cotton belt, cottonseed was going into the ground. In Texas, cotton plants were coming up. On the prairies-save where dust and drought had ruined it-winter wheat was growing green and waving in the breeze. In farmsteads everywhere newly farrowed piglets were lying like pink sausages at the teats of deflated sows. And in Washington, now that May was there, a crop of legislative dragons' teeth, the AAAmendments, were...
Amid a great swirl of dust little Lindsborg (pop. 2,016) became once again last week the most vital music centre in Kansas. From eleven States visitors poured into the town, fairly fought for parking space. The attraction was Lindsborg's longtime specialty: Handel's Messiah, performed by 500 local choristers, most of them farmers, storekeepers, mechanics, housewives, cooks...