Word: ended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frontier to North Carolina. It often reached a height of 100 feet, a ripe old age of 600 years. Today, where the once verdant chestnut forests stood, are scattered grey skeletons, a few scrubby little second growth trees. For Endothia parasitica, the chestnut fungus imported from Asia at the end of the last century, has systematically destroyed the American chestnut. Only a few stands are left in the Southern Appalachians and Endothia has started on them...
...disease-resistant as human blood; and 2) the circulatory system of a tree will by suction pressure carry medicine to diseased organs just as effectively as does the bloodstream, Tree Man John Casterline attached a rubber hose to the taproot (main root) of a chestnut tree, planted the other end in a gallon of tannic acid. Within a day, the acid working upward with the sap had begun to check the fungus. Once the parasite was killed, the trees began to flourish again. For protection the acid tanks were allowed to remain connected to the taproots for several months...
...tenth annual National Air Races in Cleveland last week end for prizes handsome enough to cover the cost of a racing plane and a decent burial, the speed-mad fringe of U. S. aviation whistled up a great sound and fury. When it was all over, the pockets of Cleveland Promoters Cliff and Phil Henderson were again lined, only one flier had been killed,† and the whinny of ships racing against borrowed time had proved that aviation still has plenty of broncos...
...averaged 90 or better in the school examinations. Episcopal High School scholars make an impressive showing at University of Vir ginia, Princeton, Harvard and Yale. Planning to go back to teach in The High School (perhaps eventually to step into his father's shoes) is a star Yale end ('39), Flick Hoxton...
...most important, for if volume of commercial loans against securities was heavy (it sometimes ran more than 50% of the total) the indication was that the borrowing was not so much for commercial purposes as a mere hocking of securities to carry inventories, etc. Commercial loans rose at the end of 1936, for example, indicating apparently that business was expanding; actually much of the borrowing was to carry ponderous inventories; was therefore a sign of danger rather than optimism...