Word: onions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turnip-grower could issue money he might say: "Here is a piece of paper good for one turnip. I promise to keep a turnip in my cellar for each piece of paper I issue, or if not a turnip then an onion or some other vegetable equally good...
...great supply farms to European markets. Old Paul did not adopt this idea because, as he said in an historic phrase, "A logging crew works on its stomach." But he did listen to Johnny Inkslinger, and hailed him as a hero, the time Johnny made possible the Onion River drive. There the wild onions were so big and strong that the loggers were blinded with tears in the woods and could scarcely work at all. Johnny Inkslinger simply discovered that Italy's garlic crop had failed that year, made a contract with the Italian Government, which sent over shiploads...
Wheat Problem. Johnny Inkslinger's solution of the onion problem could not serve Chairman Legge as a model for the wheat problem. Italy has a tall new tariff to keep out wheat. Likewise France, where wheat last week was selling at $1.71 per bu. Advanced by idealists has been the idea that the farm board donate its heavy wheat holdings to famine-stricken China, but practical-minded...
...Onion...
...Rocky Mount, N. C., Irma Morris, 4, peeled an onion with her teeth. When the onion skin slipped, Irma Morris' head jerked back, causing her neck to break...