Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kansas Republicans picked Banker Ben Sandford Paulen, onetime Governor, to make the Senate race. Renominated by the Democrats was Senator George McGill who handily defeated a lone Wet opponent. The only Wet to make any snowing in dust-dry Kansas was Edward White Patterson, a Democratic lawyer pledged to Repeal who squeaked through to a House nomination in the heavily Republican 3rd Congressional district. Because Reapportionment cost Kansas one House seat, Republican Representatives Strong and Lambertson had to fight it out for the ist District's nomination. Mr. Strong, ardent Hooverite, was defeated...
...German submarines were sinking U. S. oil tankers, oil was precious. One of the jobs of the Engineering Commission of Submarine Defense was to make oil go further. Its chairman, Lindon Wallace Bates, with the backing of the late Cameraman George Eastman, finally stabilized a 50% mixture of coal dust in oil. The U. S. S. Gem tested it successfully. After the War, Inventor Bates learned that two Germans had invented a similar fuel in 1914. He bought up their patents, developed his fuel still further...
...drying rooms four months before being passed by inspectors. Of a 250-lb. hog all but 9.38 Ib. goes into edible products. The residue consists of hides for tanning, hair, skin and sinew good for glue, grease for lubricants, bones for buttons, bone-handles, Mah-Jongg sets and dust. Orientals pay more than $100 per Ib. for hog gallstones. The ultimate remainder is brewed, dried and ground, sold as stock feed. Only the paunch manure is not used for anything. And, as stockroom adage has it, the squeal...
Five years ago six friends shook the impoverished dust of Paris off their feet, scattered to the world's ends to win fortunes which, at an agreed date, they are to return to share. The time is up. George Senterre returns to Paris rolling in wealth. Jean Perlon, who has won nothing but a sunburn meets him; on their first night's celebration they run into Carmen, their friend Gernicot's fiancee. Both men desire Carmen, but Gernicot, traveling with Namotte, is due to arrive on the Mauretania. Just out of port Namotte is tossed overboard. Gernicot arrives...
Frank Hugh Foster: A theological teacher, who, like our founders, has dreaded to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust...