Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Convalescing rapidly from the Lobby Committee's surgery, Mr. Barnes busied himself about his duties as Chairman of the Hoover Business Committee. He announced appointment of 140 representatives of widely assorted businesses, from soap to steel, from gravel to groceries, as his committee's advisory body. Their task...
If all U. S. farm products of 1929 were converted into cash, the resultant sum would pay off half the national debt or build four railroad systems the size of the Pennsylvania or run the City of New York without taxes for 14 years. Last week the Department of Agriculture...
Total crop value: $8,580,528,000, an increase of $84,740,000 over 1928. From 367,082,000 acres harvested, crop yields were 5% below last year's, due to widespread drought.
Strange as the Ozark back country where it was enacted was the trial last week at Mountain View, Ark. of four "hill barons" indicted for the murder of Connie Franklin (TIME, Dec. 9). Prime witness for the defense was a gaunt, sun-reddened farmhand who swore he was Connie Franklin...
"He ain't my Connie," insisted woebegone, calico-clad Tiller Ruminer, on whose testimony the four-Herman Greenway, Joe White, Hubert Hester, Bill Younger-were indicted. She repeated her lurid story of a night last March when, as she and Franklin set out to be married, they were attacked...