Word: locusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...known as a driver. After the U. S. entered the War he became one of Bernard Baruch's big right hands in getting U. S. War supplies, and later Assistant Secretary of War. When he died in 1925, he left a widow with a "show place" at Locust Valley, L. I., two daughters, one of them Mrs. Juan Trippe (Pan American Airways), and two sons, William and Ed- ward Jr. At the time that his father became a Morgan partner young Ed was in Pomfret School. From there he went to the University of Virginia whither his brother William...
...YEARS OF THE LOCUST (AMERICA, 1929-1932) - Gilbert Seldes - Little, Brown...
Schenley. Lewis Rosenstiel wanted to get out of the whiskey business when the years of the locust began but his family would not let him. So he sat down in Cincinnati to wait. He bought up stocks of medicinal whiskey, concentrated them in a warehouse in Schenley, Pa.-a move which, because of Governor Pinchot's tax, he sorely regretted last week. Later he bought the distillery that went with the warehouse and a few other distilleries. Last summer, having acquired a distributing unit and with it three capable whiskey men all named Jacobi, he organized Schenley Distillers Corp...
Argentine wheat farmers, overdue last week on their spring sowing, could not get a plow into the ground that a long drought had baked iron-hard. And due sometime next month was a dread enemy: the scourge of locusts trying to repeat their last year's feat of eating clean two northern provinces. Last week brought the farmers a good turn on both counts. Rain fell and softened the hard ground. And the Ministry of Agriculture got under way early against the locusts by announcing $5,000,000 worth of contracts for 12,000 mi. of sheet-iron locust...
...Jones Beach Lifeguard team: the national lifesaving tournament; at Jones Beach, L. I. Lifeguard Henry Holmes of Locust Valley, L. I. won the Medley swim, the dive for weights, the individual boat race...