Word: fewness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"I don't believe the American farmer wants charity or a handout. If we were to distribute the money at our disposal equally among all the farmers of the country it would amount to only a few dollars each and would be all gone in a little while.
While the Senators continued pondering Chairman Legge and similarly "hazing" his colleagues, the Farm Board took a few more steps:
In 1883 he made a trip back to Texas, to marry Emma Garland Morgan. A few years later he rode in the first Mexican Central train from Mexico City to El Paso, whence he went to New Mexico.
For four days Floridans waited thus. Finally a 60-mile gale, offshoot of the loitering hurricane, whooshed down on Miami. Telephone and electric lines were blown down, otherwise there was little damage. Floridans began to call the hurricane a second-rater, when from Nassau, capital of the Bahamas, came delayed...
The vagrant hurricane at length skirted the southern tip of Florida, blew down grapefruit trees, electric lines, a few buildings. Three Floridans were electrocuted by downed wires. Then it veered northwest. While relieved Miamians took down their barricades, cowering residents of Pensacola and Mobile frantically prepared for the worst.