Word: homestead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shall have an indigent population as fatal to progress as England's "Dole" receivers. If left to ourselves I really believe we can work out these problems. But every worker amongst us is soon discouraged at seeing a truckload of five husky young men drive up to a homestead, two men reach for and pick perhaps one pepper, then the crew and their transportation hunt a tree for shade and well earned rest. I sincerely hope our Senator fails in his mission to get $50,000,000 to increase our troubles. Perhaps Congress will vote...
Daughter of pioneer Nebraskans, President Pyrtle is principal of the Bancroft School, Lincoln, Neb. A few years ago she took out a homestead on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in North Dakota, uses the money realized from the sale of corn crops to buy railroad tickets to educational conventions...
Government officials told Mrs. Morton there were two ways she could "own" White Rock: 1) Go to it, "enter" it, make a "habitable home" on it, live on it for three years, thus acquire title to it under the homestead...
...Editor Long tells us he received from the hands of Mr. Coolidge was composed by the President-hats off to Editor Long. 2) Calvin Coolidge is a native of Vermont, and migrated to Massachusetts. I was born in Massachusetts, and migrated to Vermont. But Mr. Coolidge now owns the homestead at Plymouth, he accepts the name Vermonter-so I feel that we are fellow Vermonters. 3) My occupation during more than 30 years has been editing (daily newspapers), publishing, and printing. With these premises and qualifyings, may I comment on the "Great Mystery" (TIME, March 18). You tell your subscribers...
...construction of what is known as the Gray beam. In 1904, one Henry Gray took out patents on this beam, which is rolled from one piece of steel instead of being made from several pieces riveted together. In 1926, U. S. Steel began the construction of a plant in Homestead, Pa., for the making of beams similar to the Gray beams. Thereupon Eugene Gifford Grace, Bethlehem president, announced that the Gray patents were still in force and that the making of Gray beams by a Bethlehem competitor constituted a patent infringement. Ensued a Bethlehem-U. S.Steel controversy which the courts...