Word: maw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biggest coffee pot in the world is the U. S. coffee pot. Into its cavernous maw is dumped nearly half the world's total average annual production of 250,000,000 bags. About half is poured in from cans and packages, about half in bulk. Out of the Niagaran spout are poured 60 billion cups a year?one and one-third cups daily for every U. S. man, woman & child. Two-thirds of the coffee for the big U. S. pot comes from Brazil. Colombia, Venezuela, Guatemala, Mexico, Java, Mocha and other tropical lands furnish the other one-third, mild...
...Lenker had sold them rather than submit to the testing. He was arrested. On other farms, machine guns were set up while the veterinarians did their work. The revolt collapsed into a campaign of "passive resistance." Said Farmer Lenker as he marched his live body off under guard: "Well, Maw, I guess we've resisted all we can without bloodshed...
...plane begins its climb over foothills and broken mesa interspersed by patches of desert, signposts to the Rockies. Over the first range, the Continental Divide, near Winslow. Then into a glory of reds, greens and browns if the atmosphere is clear and the afternoon sun bright, across the fearful maw of Red Rock Canyon. To the north is the Painted Desert and farther on, famed Meteor Crater, 600 ft. deep; the tiny boxes at the bottom are cabins of an expedition which has located, is digging up the meteorite. Farther on mesa dwellers, descendants of the original Hopi, gaze...