Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover, whose position as a representative of the Administration does not encourage anything in the nature of exaggerated damage estimates, reported last week that more than 1,300,000 acres cannot produce a crop this summer; that in 20 counties of "drowned land" the Red Cross would have to feed and clothe the refugees for many months to come. Mr. Hoover is expected to visit President Coolidge at Custer Park in the latter part of July and at that time will presumably bring conditions to the President's attention...
...only a foot or less out of the ground. Only an abnormally long summer can save even a fraction of these two main crops. Farmers have been experimenting with soy beans, sweet potatoes, cabbages, crops as strange to them "as Broadway to an Eskimo." It is a land where cotton is king, and the king is dead...
...loans presuppose security and the only security the farmers can offer is a "phantom crop." "The land owners are as hard hit almost as the tenants and their credit has received a stunning blow. Furthermore, every merchant, every bank holds the paper of hundreds of farmers whose assets have been lost. ... To get money the farmer must give security and in the case of those who need it most the security is either in or on the way to the Gulf of Mexico...
They discovered that he had expressed a hope that the Scholars might be sent abroad "without withdrawing them, or their sympathies, from the land of their adoption or birth." Figures fulfilled this hope: of the 550 living Scholars, only about 30 are expatriates...
...RISE OP AMERICAN CIVILIZATION (2 vol.)-Charles A. & Mary R. Beard?Macmillan ($12.50). The history of a people burns in tiny villages, in towns, in lonely farms. Sparks and flames glitter between the hills and pepper the wide deserts of land, spinning together, breaking, flaring, in a bright, continuous, tangled pattern, like stars and planets...