Word: mildew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...again Representative Ralph Clampit lead a vain effort from the floor to push the bill through to the Senate. He was supported by Representative John Vaughan of Belmont who cried that the law is a "wedge in our Constitution into which the moisture will creep, and in no time mildew will rot out our rights and the foundations of our government...
...mixture is so named because the French vine-growers of the Bordeaux region used to spray their plants with copper sulphate and lime-not as a plant medicine but as a deterrent to thieves. An alert viticulturist named Millardet discovered that vines so sprayed were not attacked by downy mildew. David Fairchild and an associate were the first to try out Bordeaux mixture with success on Virginia vineyards...
...bank counter. A teller smashed them open, found in each pair of neatly glued shells a $5 gold-piece. In Waukesha, Wis., an elderly woman passed a handful of gold-pieces to a bank teller. "They're good," she said. "That's just a little mildew on them. I kept them in a bottle hanging by a string in my well." In Manhattan all one evening the dark cavern of Maiden Lane echoed with unaccustomed footsteps as one after another, clerks, stenographers, women in shawls, fathers carrying children clutching baptismal coins, trudged to the postern of the Federal...
...Department of Agriculture scientists reported progress in their fight against downy mildew, foe of hops. ¶From Chicago's Wahl-Henius Institute were graduated 24 brewmasters, the first class in 17 years. Orated Dr. Max Henius: "Make all efforts to keep the industry on the highest level, free from the fetters of politics and the saloon." ¶By working 24 hours a day a St. Joseph, Mo. factory was turning out ten tons of pretzels per day. Orders were two months behind...