Word: littered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...toward Asia, dribbling the Aleutian Islands from its end. It is a Dantesque region of ice and fire. Out of cracks in its glaciers spurts steam from the muttering cauldrons below. Rivers run blood-red with oxide of iron. Mighty volcanoes darken the sky with smoke and ash and litter the land with grotesque shapes of lava. It is the land of Aniakchak. world's largest active crater, within whose bliz-zard-beaten rim, 21 mi. around, a lesser volcano raises its snout and a placid lake nestles. It is the unofficial domain, the scientific laboratory and the conditioning...
...grounds of dumping. Following his wheat export proposal Mr. Wallace announced final details of the plan to raise hog and corn prices (TIME, Aug. 21): the Government will spend $55,000,000 buying up 5,000,000 hogs (4,000,000 young animals, 1,000,000 sows about to litter.) The 5,000,000 hogs will be used to feed the unemployed...
...month. The scheme's whole purpose was to get 500,000,000 Ib. of live pork out of the way by Jan. i, four times that amount next year, by rushing to market little pigs before they became big pigs, brood sows before they had another litter. The proposal called...
...speculators took it easy last week. Brokers cleaned up the litter left by the July Crash (TIME. July 31). Stock and grain prices rebounded, then shuffled off in a secondary reaction as exchange offi cials prepared for resumption of normal trading. The Chicago Board of Trade retained limits on daily fluctuation but removed the minimum prices established when Edward A. ("Doc") Crawford was suspended for insolvency. Banned from the pit forever were all dealings in in demnities (options on grain futures contracts, generally regarded as pure gambling). The New York Stock Exchange voted to lengthen its short sessions into...
Please explain why TIME'S editors permitted mention of a particular brand of cigaret in issue of July 3, quoting: "Administrator General Hugh Johnson . . . was to be found among a prodigious litter of waste paper and Old Gold cigaret butts...