Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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South Africa can leave its diamonds in the ground but the only way to keep coffee expensive enough to suit Brazilian growers is to burn it in big, grey-green mounds. Since 1931 Brazil's National Coffee Department has sent $250,000,000 worth of Brazil's chief crop up in smoke. Last week the Department, estimating that the year's bumper crop of 26,000,000 sacks (132.2 Ib. apiece) would leave a 10,000,000-sack surplus to add to the accumulation already on hand, announced that this year it would...
...gained an average 1.1%, while lesser sects "reached the astonishing figure of 29.49%." Last year 49.43% of the population was "affiliated with some church," as compared to 46.6% in 1926. Over its figures the Herald exulted: "A direct contradiction to pessimists who claim the churches have lost ground...
Though the Ryder Cup has invariably been won by the golf team playing on home ground, on the eve of the biennial Cup matches in England last week Captain Walter Hagen boldly picked his U. S. professionals to win, was so confident that he ventured to predict the score: 8-to-4. To oppose Great Britain's topflight Golfers Henry Cotton and Alf Padgham in the opening "Scotch foursome" (partners hitting alternate strokes) he thereupon picked not Tony Manero and Ralph Guldahl, U. S. Open champions for 1936 and 1937, but Byron Nelson, 25-year-old one-time Texas...
...then submitted to popular referendum at the next election of U. S. Representatives.*Maryland taximen, who make good money driving out-of-State couples to the marriage mills,† obtained 13,007 signatures of registered voters (3,007 more than required) and Maryland's mills ground merrily on, with November 1938 their distant and dubious deadline...
...weeks ago a gas well in Boone County jumped after treatment from 800,000 cu. ft. daily to 3,600,000 cu. ft. Last month Vandergrift branched out into Ohio and Kentucky, did the biggest month's business since he started. Because he knows his trade from the ground down and is willing to go out on a case at any hour, in any season, over any sort of roads, James Vandergrift has the eastern field to himself. Dow Chemical Co. is having comparable success with acid treatment in Oklahoma, Chemical Process Co. in Texas...