Word: germane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Port of New York and a large part of it came through that port. It is a matter of history and nobody has safely denied it, that the great immigrant population of this country did its full share to build it up, and certainly the great Scandinavian and German immigration to the Northwest was a powerful factor in the upbuilding of this section of the country...
Savants and Statesmen sometimes learn from Swine. As a result of such learning the Federal Council of the German States issued an order, last week, banning from importation into Germany all U. S. barley, except that grown in the states of Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas...
Barley from other U. S. states is now tainted with gibberella sanbinetti, ruled the Federal Council, and based this damning decision upon the reports of German savants, who have been learning from German swine...
Learning progressed as follows. First 20,000 tons of U. S. barley, the first batch of a 500,000-ton order, was received and test samples were offered to the swine. After sniffing and tasting the U. S. barley the German swine turned up their snouts, refused...
...German savants, patient, waited several days until the hogs grew so ravenous that they ate the U. S. barley. That night German swine who had partaken of barley from states other than Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas suffered the pangs of colic...