Word: leys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week took its biggest single step yet toward future self-sufficiency in rubber. The Department of Agriculture okayed a $25,000,000 project to plant 45,000 acres in the Southwest with guayule (wa-yu-ley), a tough, sagebrush-like plant containing 20-22% pure rubber...
...these were subordinate to the Liaison Staff of which Hess was chairman. Its members included Goebbels, Ribbentrop, Rosenberg, Bohle, Otto Abetz, Ley. There was also that "laboratory for the science of conquest," The Institute of Geopolitics, whose 1,000-odd researchers supplied it with "a series of X-ray pictures of all the countries of the world...
...California, his son, Evan, 21, quit Princeton to drive an ambulance for the British in the Near East. ∙∙ John L Lewis' daughter, Kathryn, refused to talk about a report that she had ditched America First. ∙∙ The Silver Shirts' goat-bearded William Dudley Pel ley, given a suspended sentence in 1935 for breaking North Carolina's "blue sky" stock law, surrendered to Buncombe County...
...were never cold or uncomfortable," said Jim Rothschild ocC, speaking of the group which climbed through ley rain and snow on Mount Adams, where the weather took a toll of one camper's life this weekend. While the mercury dropped close to zero on the mountain top the Outing Club boys found sung haven in the Crag Camp, below freeline...
KENTUCKY: Herbert L. Ley, Jr., Ashland...