Word: made
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great consulter of the public, John Cotton Dana sat him down in 1914 and in 15 homely chapters cut through the welter of U. S. snobbery and callowness about Art. In his classic American Art: How It Can be Made to Flourish, he observed that the ability to tell a well-designed teacup should precede precious talk about Giotto; and he urged the purchase and study of contemporary work by U. S. designers and artists. The Museum lived up to this so consistently that in 1925, when Dana was in Italy and a rich Newark lady sent him $10.000 with...
Ever since 1860 the U. S. has been almost entirely dependent on Europe for one very essential chemical: potash.* Last year the U. S. made history by producing 52% of its potash at home. Recently the annual report of the Bureau of Mines revealed that fact. Last week the consequences of it became apparent: Europe launched a potash war to recover the U. S. market...
...about two-thirds Potash Syndicate of Germany, some French, less Polish. Its bankers are British. Spain, an independent producer, thoroughly undercut the trust's prices in 1933 and 1934. But in the spring of 1935 the Syndicate, thanks to German control of Spain's oldest potash company, made a tentative deal with Spain. Immediately the world price snapped back from its trade...
...Knoxville, Tenn., Revenuer Sam McKinney, after raiding nine Cocke County stills, received a tearful letter: "In rades made last two weeks you got our forth licker, one forth our pots and barls. So plees let us alone awhile til we get good start again. We want work. Wer ashamd to beg. Wer afrade to steel. We can't starve. So plees let Cocke and Cosby rest 10 days til we get started again...
...Johannesburg, South Africa, Professor Raymond Dart of the University of the Witwatersrand made a startling report: From the jungle where he had been reared by baboons, white policemen rescued a 12-year-old Negro. The boy could at first make only baboonlike noises. When he learned Afrikaans, he told goggle-eyed Professor Dart': "My food consisted mainly of crickets, ostrich eggs, prickly pears, green mealies and wild honey. . . . While with the baboons I walked on all fours and slept in the bush entirely naked...