Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congressmen found that in this tree-planting scheme as run by the Forest Service there was no "pork" whatever. What was the use, asked Congressmen, of spending $75,000,000 or more to plant over a billion trees, if the natural protector of the prairies was not trees but grass...
...becomes involved in the question of the economic practicality of such a project as well as in the difficulties of evaluating sociological, legal, medical, and engineering problems. To train men to fill positions demanding such decisions requires more than a course or two in laying out side streets and grass plots...
...last week opened its First National Exhibition of U. S. Art in Rockefeller Center's International Building. Arranged according to the artists' home States, some 700 paintings and 60 sculptures from 46 States, the District of Columbia and four territories hung on specially prepared walls of sea grass and plaster. For the preview dinner in Rockefeller Center's 65th story Rainbow Room, New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia rounded up a roomful of bigwigs, including New Jersey's Governor Harold Hoffman. Beefy Governor Hoffman promptly proceeded to put the show on the front pages...
...people, most of whom demanded only that they have the fun of shooting the animals. Three hundred thousand dollars was provided for six expeditions. Painters went along to sketch the settings in color, and photographers to snap the animals in all their natural poses. Tons of rock, earth, sand, grass, tree trunks and branches were shipped to the museum, where they were treated with a preservative and the African settings reproduced piece by piece. Artificial berries, leaves and flowers were made of paper, wax, cloth, celluloid. In the gorilla group there are 75,000 artificial leaves and berries, some...
...even find the old 30-foot brick well upon which the pump is to take up its stand. There are no old charts available, and so they can only go by photographs and by the knowledge that the concrete slab covering the old well is four feet below grass-level. Hours of poking with a crow-bar have failed to reveal any concrete slab...