Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hawaii and Puerto Rico, although voteless, have long contended that they are entitled to equal consideration with Louisiana, Michigan, Colorado or any other State. Delegates from Honolulu are forever pointing out that Hawaii pays more income tax than any of 16 States. But last week U. S. citizens in those islands feared that the House of Representatives regarded them as mere colonies. Whereas New York or Georgia might refine all the sugar they could get their hands on, the House restricted Hawaiian refiners to 3%, Puerto Rico refiners to 16% of their own sugar which they produce for consumption...
Bills limiting freight trains to 70 cars or a half-mile, sometimes also restricting passenger trains to 14 or 16 cars, have been introduced in 29 other States, always strongly backed by organized railway labor. The Legislatures of Louisiana, Nevada, Oklahoma, California passed them. In California, however, the measure was killed by a Governor's veto; in the other States the laws were found unconstitutional by Federal courts...
Started as an experimental program in the Michigan field more than five years ago by The Dow Chemical Co., acidizing has spread to the great Mid-Continent field of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Louisiana, New Mexico and on to Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, California-even to Alberta, Canada, and to Old Mexico. Dowell Inc. was formed in 1932 as a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Co., to handle this new business and to put it into practice...
Culturally the South still consists of a large group of small islands. Nowhere is this source of confusion to Northerners better dramatized than in the Cane River country of west central Louisiana, locale of Children of Strangers...
...birds have a fiercely protective instinct for their young and the onslaughts usually occur when the young are learning to fly. Some years ago a report in a scientific journal of an attack brought out dozens of letters from Oregon to Ontario to Texas recording similar episodes. One Louisiana Negro was said to have lost an eye. Policemen walking lonely beats are frequent victims...