Word: farms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congress: He is about as regular in his votes as a Democrat can be. He voted for tax reduction and flood control in 1928, for the Jones law and the 15 cruiser bill in 1929. He voted in series for the three farm relief bills in recent sessions, for radio control, for the Boulder Dam, against reapportionment. He is now fighting the tariff bill...
...Persuaded by President Hoover, Thomas Hildt, partner in an old Baltimore banking house (Alex Brown & Sons), consented to become financial adviser of the Federal Farm Board. His task: organizing a banking division to administer the $500,000,000 farm loan fund. His remuneration: nothing (by request...
...Businessman' Brookes got briskly down to cases. It was time for people to realize, he said, that Australia will not submit to encroachment of a much heavier U. S. tariff on her wool and meats without raising a customs wall of her own against U. S. motor cars, cinemas, farm implements -products which the Dominion can also buy from the Mother Country. Stressing the fact that Australia now buys from the U. S. every year six times as much as she sells to the U. S., suave Commissioner-General Brookes asked in effect if such a very good cus tomer...
...deceived about the age of the shells in its cases. But not until the year 100 B. C. did the world take an active interest in the sex life of the oyster. The first to make a study of oyster love was one Sergius Grata, who founded an oyster farm on Italy's Lake Lucrine. The last was omnivorous General Foods Corp. which last week announced the formation of a new subsidiary. Bluepoints Co. Inc., to take over the assets of the North Atlantic Oyster Farms, Inc. operating in Rhode Island, Connecticut and New York. North Atlantic Oyster Farms...
Samuel C. Hildreth, 63, oldest U. S. race horse trainer, longtime handler of Harry Ford Sinclair's Rancocas stables (Zev), owner of Strombolt Farm (Trenton, N. J.), entered a Manhattan hospital for observation and intestinal operation...