Word: grains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Count surprised everybody, hung on for more than ten years, set an endurance record for Premiers in post-War Europe. The first problem facing him was what to do about the Emperor Charles's attempt to regain the Hungarian throne. Republicanism ran against the Count's aristocratic grain, but he knew that a Habsburg restoration would provoke Allied intervention. So he approved the dispatch of troops that repulsed Charles and his Royalist forces when they attempted to reach Budapest in October 1921, earned the title, "the man who fired on his King...
...kept lopping off chunks of normal German trade with England, the U. S., and Soviet Russia, but export subsidies to the extent of 30% of the value of all German exports enabled Nazi businessmen to quote speciously attractive prices to the Balkans and South America, regions with surpluses of grain, tobacco, oil, cotton, coffee and cocoa. Between debtor nations the system of subsidized barter might have worked satisfactorily enough, but the Nazis themselves were slow to deliver finished goods in return for foodstuffs and raw materials, and they frequently demoralized world markets for their suppliers by reselling coffee, tobacco, cotton...
...fortnight, on a hunch, an unnamed physician at General Hospital tried a simple kindergarten game on Mrs. Gregory. He knotted the end of a fine steel wire, gently pushed it down her throat into her stomach. On the wire he threaded a tiny steel bead, no larger than a grain of wheat, which he propelled down Mrs. Gregory's throat with a small steel spring. The next bead was a little larger. After half a dozen graduated beads had gone down the wire, and forced a narrow opening in Mrs. Gregory's food passage, the doctor pulled them...
...further crossbreeding. Since nonopening types of cotton already exist, the scientists believe they can soon turn the trick. Such a plant should be in great demand among smart cotton planters because: 1) instead of having to be ginned, it could be cheaply threshed and harvested like any small grain; 2) there would be no cotton fibre to swell the two-year glut already on hand...
...from the cab when a steam pipe burst. With brakes somehow released, the locomotive backed into a string of cars and with reverse lever swung forward by the impact, reversed its direction. Passing its appalled engineer and fireman it swung out on to the main line, picked up a grain car ahead of it and disappeared into the mist. Up the main line at 50 m.p.h. whipped No. 34, Great Western's night Omaha-Minneapolis passenger train. Four miles south of Tennant with its headlight shrouded by the grain car the runaway crashed into No. 34 headon. Like berry...