Word: marchings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Easter to the American Indians is the feast of the renascence of Nature. March is the time-when-the-green-lizards-come-out. Indians used to dance an eagle dance, splendid and feathered, imitating an eagle's swirling, pointing to the six points of the Indian compass (north, south, east, west, above, below), praying to Nature to yield tobacco and corn...
...eradication. These insects travel in regular columns and with horrifying voracity eat every living thing in their paths−insects, mice, rats, snakes, even humans. Natives welcome the ants' arrival to their homes, merely moving out until the ants eat up all the household pests and march...
...half a billion greater than for last February. Copper hit a new high of 24? a pound. Automobile makers set a February record of 466,084 motor cars, more than 4,000 increase over August 1928, previous record month. Pittsburgh steel mills are running at 95% of capacity and March is expected to be a record-breaking month for steel production. Oil production was reduced by 40,000 barrels (week ending March 16 compared to week ending March 9). U.S. industry zoomed along at high speed, threatened many an earning, sales and production record...
...then, on Tuesday, March 26, came the biggest stock market crash in Coolidge-Hoover history...
...cause of these various opinions was a controversy resulting from the recent (TIME, March 18) Harvard Awards−advertising prizes. This year's jury awarded to Marcus & Co., "with recognition to Charles A. Hammarstrom," the sum of $1,000 "for the advertisement most effective in its use of pictorial illustration as the chief means of delivering its message." But no mention was made of the fact that Mr. Hammarstrom is an advertising manager and that the picture was actually the work of famed Rockwell Kent.* In naming Mr. Hammarstrom, the Harvard School of Business Administration had followed its usual...