Word: nan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Majority Leader Sam Rayburn of Texas had vowed he would not sign the petition. His was the 203rd name on the list. Cried Mrs. Norton: "It's all over now!" Eight Louisiana Democrats followed Mr. Rayburn. Oregon's Nan Honeyman was the 217th, leaving the honor of completing the list to Louisiana's Robert Mouton. Then Mr. Mouton stepped over to Mrs. Norton, gallantly kissed her hand...
Last fortnight all six women members of Congress-Arkansas' Senator Hattie Caraway, Representatives Caroline O'Day (N. Y.), Edith Nourse Rogers (Mass.), Mary T. Norton (N. J.), Nan W. Honeyman (Ore.), Virginia E. Jenckes (Ind.)- lined up chain-gang fashion for a group photograph (see cut). They had gathered to honor the prize winner of a contest conducted by the Women's Division of the Democratic National Committee...
...total Japanese force in North China under Lieut. General Kiyoshi Kazuki at well over 90,000 men. Through driving rain and mud hip-high to the short-legged Japanese, lines were pushed straight through to Kalgan in Chahar Province, giving Japan final control of the vitally important Nan-kow Pass and Peiping-Kalgan railroad, the line that Japan must have if she is to control North China (or ever attempt to attack Russia through southern Siberia...
...TIME, July 19). In a series of pitched battles at historic Marco Polo Bridge and among the hamlets clustered about Peiping, Chinese gave a spirited account of themselves, and last week in picturesquely worded communiques they "repulsed the barbarians who tried to cut off our garrison and airport at Nan-Yuan, driving them off with our broad-swords." During this engagement two small Japanese shells burst just inside Peiping's Yungting Gate, but panic-stricken Chinese peasants continued to flee in from the countryside...
...Smart farmers use the so-called 12-10-1 corn-hog formula to determine whether it is more profitable to sell corn as corn or as pork The formula: when 100 Ib. of hog is worth more nan 12 bu. of corn, raise hogs: when worth less, sell corn. At farm prices hogs are now sellmg for about $11 per cwt., while 12 bu of corn are worth more than $15. Thus corn is favored. Originated during the War when Herbert Hoover, the Food Administrator, was trying to boost hog production, the formula is actually 11.6-to-1, but farmers...