Word: grains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Puritan spirit is usually associated with hard and bare surroundings. Hence Kansas towns are plain, the grain elevators are plain, the rivers are plain, the sunflower is a plain flower. The highways are unpaved. Indelible is the stamp of the Kansas road on the transcontinental touring car that strikes rain between St. Joseph and Denver and the driver must get out to dig the clay from the mudguards so that the wheels can turn round...
...connection with this visit, the most absurd stories, which had not a grain of truth in them, were circulated by certain people out of malice. Even my good wife, one of the gentlest and most modest of women, did not escape these false reports. It was falsely whispered, and I believe even maliciously printed, that when the Queen had expressed her wonder at New York, pronouncing it one of the most...
Congress can perhaps accomplish a great deal if it will run to ground plans for Federal storage of surplus grain to cover deficiency in an ensuing year, and plans also for cheap and efficient marketing. These subjects appear the most tangible of all referred to in the many projects broached. And if in addition to incisive planning of this nature, Congress can rise to the occasion and provide impartial and enduring machinery such as the Federal Reserve System owns, it will have handled an economic problem with political wisdom...
...consumption of food products in the U. S. has been increasing much more rapidly than the production of foodstuffs. Only last week the Department of Agriculture made public a study confirming this fact. Of sugar, fruits, nuts and vegetables we import more than we export. We still export more grain, grain products, and animal products than we import, but the net exportation of animal products has fallen off 41% in 25 years or so, and grain and grain products have fallen off 22% in approximately the same period. On the other hand our sugar imports have increased 111% and imports...
Cables from Syria announced that the Jebel Druz Sultan, El Atrash, has resorted to the last extremity of resistance against the French by proclaiming a holy war. After issuing an order prohibiting the sowing of winter grain by men between 20 and 60 years of age, El Atrash called an assembly of the chiefs at which it was allegedly decided to excommunicate every Druse who should fail to devote himself to the long-standing struggle with the French (TIME, Dec. 14 et ante...