Word: grubs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cabin floor, cooked breakfast over a fire in the front yard, shambled unrecognized into the village store and bought some groceries. Snarled the storekeeper: "One dollar and sixty-five cents-and three cents for the sales tax that that goddam Governor Murray put on the poor man's grub." When indignant citizens stormed Little Rock demanding a special session of the Legislature to repeal Arkansas' new 2% sales tax, Governor Junius Marion Futrell fled to Hot Springs, hopped into a steam bath, cried: "It's cooler in this box than it was at the Capitol...
Last week the directors of Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Co. declared their initial dividend, a 50? payment that marked the first return on a classic promotion. Just 20 years ago a Canadian prospector stumbled on a rusty streak of sulphide ore in the ancient rocks of northern Manitoba. Having grub-staked the prospector and his five partners, John E. ("Jack") Hammell made them a proposition: $100,000 for each prospector, $1,000,000 for himself if he could get it. Laughing uproariously, the prospectors agreed...
Promisingly vulnerable to parasites is the Japanese beetle, a handsome bronze and bottle-green creature smaller than a June bug. Experimenters have found that maggots of the Prosena fly and Tiphia wasp will destroy the Japanese beetle grub if they have access...
...manifold, and it is designed to attack the problems of the depression from more than one angle. "In the first place," he said, "the plan is intended to relieve unemployment through putting men to work in the gold fields. It should open up our vast gold resources through the grub staking of prospectors, and lead to the location of new dredging operations and the discovery of new lode mines. In the second place, it will put gold... purchasing power and a medium of exchange... directly into the hands of the buyer without taxing other industries. In the third place...
...involve the production of a material already over-produced, and in that it permits a mental and physical freedom which other arrangements deny their beneficiaries. Where the men in the Reforestation Camps are cooped up unnaturally and are accomplishing little of value, the men who are to be grub-staked will be on their own as their ancestors were. "The depression of '49 was lifted by the discovery of gold in California," he said. "Where those miners suffered unfold hardships to attain their goal, modern searchers will be aided by improved transportation, which makes both labor and gold mobile. Furthermore...