Word: mule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drawer farmers have taken the cream. FSA can help 500,000-odd small-time farmers produce much-needed foodstuffs. But the Farm Bureau and their Congressmen hate FSA with a real and poisonous hatred; FSA helps impoverished Negroes and whites to own their own 40 acres and a mule, to gain independence, to pay their poll taxes, to assert their rights as individuals...
Died. William Henry Jackson, 99, pioneer photographer of the West; of complications following a fall; in Manhattan. At 22, a Civil War veteran who had fought with the Army of the Potomac, he escorted migrant Mormons over the Oregon Trail, drove a mule train over the Rockies, rode herd on 300 mustangs bound from Sacramento to Omaha. He photographed the building of the Union Pacific, the boom days of Cripple Creek and Leadville, made camera records of the Indians and frontiersmen of the Wyoming Territory, gave stay-at-home Easterners their first graphic pictures of the West...
...certain complex tar and benzine compounds, hundreds of other carcinogenic (cancer-causing) chemicals. Farmers and sailors may develop skin cancer through long exposure to the ultraviolet rays of sunlight. Cotton spinners in Britain, who are constantly exposed to the carcinogenic mineral oil used in lubricating the spindles, may develop "mule spinners' cancer" of the scrotum. Obviously, said Dr. Cramer, occupational cancer is a "preventable disease." Social Cancers, an expression coined by Dr. Cramer, which include cancers of the esophagus, stomach, upper digestive tract -all especially common in the lower economic groups. One reason for this prevalence, said the doctor...
...last fortnight was relieved of his job on the grounds that Legion editors are not free agents in matters "relating to politics or religion." Said ex-Editor Henson: "Folks who excuse the Oxford Group by saying 'the play was all right' aren't acquainted with Georgia mules. A Georgia mule will be perfectly nice for a year to lure the trusting plowman squarely behind his heels for a kickoff...
...Next to German Lieder, she loves animals best. She once hired a special plane to whisk her Pomeranian from Paris to a London vet, once carried a sick Great Dane home to her apartment, refused to sing in an Ohio town until authorities ministered to an unhappy mule lying in the street. One of her adopted strays won a Manhattan pet show prize-for dogs "combining the most breeds." She buys 25 Ib. of bird seed a week, which she spreads on her window sills-to the delight of birds and the chagrin of her fellow tenants; the bird-droppings...