Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Woodring. Governor Landon has stuck to the law's letter. But the enormous myth which GOPartisans have made of his budget-balancing feat may be finally debunked by reflection on the probable state of Kansas' finances if the Federal budget had been balanced since 1933, thus depriving dust, drought and Depression-stricken Kansas of the $400,000,000 of Federal money which has poured in from such sources as RFC, HOLC and FCA loans, AAA checks and Relief...
...advance, Haile Selassie took refuge for a day or two at Magdala, burned by the British in 1868, scene of the suicide of the Emperor's predecessor, Theodore. Magdala's peasants were heartily sick of the war. Many a glum-faced, kinky-polled native spat in the dust as the little imperial party passed. Some crept up to the imperial quarters. A volley of shots crashed through the windows. The Emperor's valet and his chamberlain, both of whom were standing talking to their master, dropped dead. The little Emperor was not scratched...
...Saint Joseph, Mich., when Alfred Zuhl, 11, pedaled too close to a vacuum street sweeper, he and his bicycle were whisked up. sucked into the dust container. Hastily mechanics took the sweeper apart, found the bicycle wrecked, Alfred Zuhl gasping but unhurt. Demanded Alfred Zuhl: "Where...
...Direct wires carried the news to Chicago and Manhattan, where cables whipped it on to Liverpool and Buenos Aires. It was only a matter of minutes before all the world's wheat speculators knew that at last rain had moistened the dry wheat fields of the U. S. "dust bowl...
...dust or dirt, no speck of grime...