Word: harvestable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four live Komodo lizards in captivity, two in London, one in Amsterdam, one in Berlin. In 1926 Naturalist Douglas Burden brought two to Bronx Zoo, but they pined away in 40 days. Last week's arrivals were escorted by two young Harvardmen, Lawrence Tarleton Knutsford Griswold and William Harvest Harkness, who captured 43 lizards on Komodo in box traps baited with deer carcasses. They loosed all but eight, gave four by agreement to Java's Sourabaya Zoo. One of the remaining four died of seasickness on the way to the U. S. Another, ailing, was restored...
...Shine On, Harvest Moon" blazed first in 1907, distinguished itself by coming back 25 years later, not as a sentimental hangover, but as a tune so fresh and melodic that many a youngster thought it was new. Jack Norworth wrote "Harvest Moon" when he and Nora Bayes were married. They sang it in the first Ziegfeld Follies in which Nora wore a white muslin dress, a floppy hat and Jack white flannels, a long blue coat and a pancake straw. The World-Telegram devotes its piece to Norworth, now a stalky, white-haired man who sells cocktail biscuits to supplement...
Famed for their telescopic eyesight, grain traders long ago spotted a poor rye harvest for this July. They began accumulating large rye commitments, sat back to wait for a price rise. On April 1 they had good news. The rye crop was reported in the poorest condition in 55 years. Persistent lack of rain had parched the grain fields of the Dakotas, biggest of U.S. rye producers. Demand for rye on the other hand, normally 35,000,000 bu. per year, would be bigger, since at least 5,000,000 bu. were needed in the whiskey trade. Only one factor...
When Jacob Riis, the eminent humanitarian, started his campaign for amelioration of the living conditions of the poor, the American slum had already come to be regarded as a social evil of primary importance. Years of agitation and legislation have reaped no material harvest, and the slums are now larger, filthier, and a more serious menace than ever. Recently New York officials were forced to evacuate a few of that city's 4,000 or more firetraps, of which three immediately justified the move by burning to the ground--or rather to the dingy concrete courts which surrounde...
Last year the Government paid cotton farmers some $100,000,000 for plowing under about one quarter of their crop, only to find that the harvest of 13,177,000 bales was even larger than the year before. Good growing weather and subterfuges on the part of the farmers were jointly responsible...