Word: indiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indiana the Republican state convention denounced the Administration's tariff-bargaining law (see p. 13), scored the cut in veterans' pensions...
...whole tomatoes, paste, pulp, sauce and juice were produced in U. S. canneries, to say nothing of the countless millions of fresh tomatoes which grocers sold each day. Canning alone was a $33,000,000 industry. As a tomato State Texas is surpassed by 20 others (biggest canners: Maryland, Indiana,California...
...against better known enemies spring surveys are conducted to find out how they survived the winter. Reports this year were far from heartening. Grasshoppers, No. 1 bane of Northwestern grain farmers, got through a mild winter in enormous numbers. Chinch bug mortality in the Midwest was only 3%. In Indiana and Kansas 93% of Hessian flies emerged unscathed from their underground puparia. Millions of Mormon crickets came safely through in Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming. Montana. Bitter cold in the East caused high mortality among some destructive insects, but the Japanese beetle was protected by heavy snows and promised to be dangerous...
...Chalmers Covert of Philadelphia was elected moderator on the second ballot. A conservative, he has specialized in religious education, is to retire at 70 this year from the secretaryship of the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education which he assumed a decade ago. When William Covert was born on an Indiana farm, his 93-year-old grandfather carried him to a window, peered through his spectacles at the babe and pronounced: "This is the minister we have been praying for.'' Ordained at 23, Covert asked a Minnesota missions superintendent for "the hardest field in the State," was assigned...
Coleman Herpel 2G, of McKeesport, Indiana and Walter Leighton, Jr. 2G, of South Bend, Indiana have won the prizes of $25 each for the best papers before the Mathematical Club during the academic year...