Word: grown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dirigible Norge, was presented to President Coolidge by the Italian Ambassador. Titina, sophisticated fox terrier who had seen the North Pole, accompanied General Nobile, but scurried out of one of the White House windows before greeting the President. ¶Does President Coolidge eat raccoon meat? No. A full-grown male raccoon, sent from Nitta Yuma, Miss., with the hope that it would be a pièce de résistance for the Presidential table, is now frisking about in the White House cellar. Soon it will probably be despatched to the Rock Creek Zoo in Washington...
...selling for $3 a peck,* f. o. b. Ply mouth, Vt. Last week New York newspapers contained an advertisement of the Dimock Potato Corp. of Bellows Falls, Vt., which said: "A thrill for your dinner guests. . . . This unusual, long-to-be-remembered novelty-baked potatoes de luxe-grown on the farm of Calvin Coolidge's boyhood...
...boom-de-ay'?" Of course the reader remembers, with gusto. The museum trip continues. ". . . And when Michigan Avenue [the book is dedicated to Chicagoans who turned the century] was a dirt road leading south from the greasy river, past brownstone respectability to prairie pioneering in those windblown, grass-grown suburbs, Oakland, Hyde Park, the Midway? And how Chicago sprang up and spread out, so that when the World's Fair opened, with the world's biggest this and the world's finest that, it was a city, with plenty of black smoke and red light neighborhoods...
...your money at home"). Commerce Director Julius Klein also accuses New England industry of narrowness. While studying 350 firms there, he found that only one had a business analyst. Like pre-War Europe this section has disastrous overconfidence in past methods and trade processes, whereas U. S. "industry has grown precisely because it has the highest scrapheap in the world." The machinery in one New England textile factory averaged 23 years in age. One shoe factory kept making high buttoned shoes because "Uncle Ezra," founder, had done so. Industries should balance their manufacturing schedules to run evenly the year through...
...cent, of the area of the islands is under cultivation. Agricultural methods are very primitive. Little has been done to improve them. The soil and climate of the Islands, however, is as good as the best in the fabulously rich Indies. All manner of tropical products can be grown there--rubber, camphor, coffee, tea, cocoa, gutta-percha, cocoanuts. Of these we import each year enormous quantities, but only a very small percentage comes from the Philippines. If, therefore, Americans would help the Filipinos to develop their great resources, the benefit would be mutual. We need their products. The need...