Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Distressed by the fact that the disappearance of hardy grass from the U. S. great plains was releasing numberless tons of soil on the wind and making vast reaches of new desert, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace last spring sent an expedition to the Gobi Desert where, he knew, were sturdy grasses which could outlive extremes of cold and heat and drought. Expedition leader was bald, goat-bearded Nicholas Konstantinovich Roerich, painter, mystic, founder of Manhattan's Roerich Museum, habitué of Central Asia (TIME...
...spots off last year's. The Corn Belt Farm Dailies glowed with rays of "business sunshine." thanked God for good weather, the Government for good prices. These two factors were responsible for a grain crop up 80% over drought-stricken 1934, for cattle which, fattened on sweet lush grass, were selling $2 per cwt. higher in Chicago than a year ago. In Editor & Publisher, which issued a special supplement full of good farm news. Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace estimated that this year's farm cash income would top last year...
...Dalles, Ore. American Legion State Convention, when Legionaries put on a burlesque hula-hula dance in costume, a bystander playfully poked a lighted match into Legionary Olaf Nelson's grass skirt. The skirt blazed briskly. Olaf Nelson ran screaming from the platform, died...
...hired (1913) to evaluate the medicinal values of Saratoga Springs. The Mohawks venerated the mineral waters of Saratoga Springs. American "Continentals," sickened, wounded and soiled by the Revolutionary War, went there to cleanse and heal themselves. After the Revolution George Washington, whose wife spent considerable part of her wartime grass-widowhood at Virginia's warm springs, tried to buy Saratoga Springs, failed. Gideon Putnam bought 300 acres around the springs, built a hotel, made the place a health resort. In 1825 John Clarke, who started the first soda fountain in Manhattan, began to bottle and sell carbonated water from...
...arouse the tame geese on the place. The old Toulouse gander sent back an answering challenge to his wild cousins, while his mates stretched out their necks and screamed to the top of their long throats. They rushed along the dark ground, beating their wings and tipping the grass with their toes, only to wheel pitifully and try again...