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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...severe drought, floods and the like (and this merely goes to prove the rule), a farmer cannot be starved to death on the ground. Having been reared on a plantation, I know that the majority of tenants absolutely will not raise a garden on the plot always provided free of charge unless the landlord, in the tenant's own interest, compels it. The Southern climate permits the growing of greenstuffs nine or ten months in the year-and the county agricultural agents and demonstrators are hired expressly to teach those willing to learn to preserve the fruits (which grow...
...Leader Lewis was given free time by National Broadcasting Co., subsidiary of Radio Corp. of America, whose Victor plant at Camden, N. J. was last week fighting a strike of United Electrical & Radio Workers backed and partly financed by Leader Lewis and his Committee...
...inhabitants to the Pacific Ocean constitute as remarkable an engineering achievement as the main which brings pure water over mountains from a lake 233 miles away. The main channels of the Los Angeles sewers measure 50 miles in length. To inspect them, to see that they were free of corrosion and cracks, has been the job for the past 16 years of a husky, ruddy, straw-haired athlete named Reuben Brown, 45, assistant superintendent of sewer maintenance. Mr. Brown enjoys his inspections, has in the course of them made many an odd find of money, jewelry and glass eyes...
...agreed to let them have her Park for concerts by the Chicago Symphony, provided they would permit her to pass upon the list of conductors. With Banker Willoughby George Walling as chairman, the group quickly raised $30,000 in guarantees. Since the Chicago Symphony was also scheduled for free concerts in Grant Park, sponsored by the City and the local Federation of Musicians, the Ravinia organizers had to be content with four concerts over each of five weekends during the summer. With moderate prices they had a good advance sale when the first concert began last week...
...miners for the rescue. All that day and the following night the rescuers could hear faint sounds from Enoch Kuklinskie. They were afraid that wet clay dripping from the shaft walls would fill up the air holes in the rubble before they reached him. Next morning they got him free, hoisted him out of the shaft on a board...