Word: patches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...waited until her 3-month-old child Harold partly emptied his bottle. Then Mrs. Watson Patrick tucked him in his crib under the tree at the edge of the tomato patch, wiped dribble from his lips, and left him for an hour to help her husband cultivate the vines. Unobserved by the Patricks, shack-living tenant farmers of Bells, Tenn., when they placed the child's crib on the ground, was a red ant hill. Nor did Mother Patrick notice that her son's milk bottle was leaking on the coverlet, dripping to the ground...
Some of the best mules of the Arkansas State prison farm near Tucker are dead and there is no money to buy more. Last week Superintendent Arthur Grenade Stedman was faced with a problem: how to get the prison farm's cotton patch seeded? For each dead mule, he harnessed six strapping convicts to a cotton planter. When five other machines had likewise been hitched with prison labor, he sent them forth to inseminate the good earth of Arkansas...
...primates, swarm in Madagascar and the Malay Islands, are scarce elsewhere. Last week as the Mabahiss prepared to wind up its cruise, the expedition's secretary in Cambridge received another report, accompanied by samples of water and ooze from depths down to five miles. Beneath a wide patch of the Indian Ocean, Leader Sewell had found a sort of Dead Sea, beginning at a depth of 50 to 100 ft. and extending down indefinitely. The water above it teemed with life; below, no evidence of life whatever could be found. This condition was ascribed to the presence of petroleum...
...Bankster Wiggin could understand, bought & bought until it owned a 20% interest. But Mr. Wiggin was kept busy by other jobs, and the 150,000 shares gathered dust in the Chase vaults. Last week Chase's Chairman Winthrop Aldrich, still raking Mr. Wiggin's cabbage patch, dug out the 150,000 shares of Corn Exchange stock, sold them to Lehman Brothers, bankers. No price was revealed. Two days later Lehman offered 78,000 shares of the bank stock (exempt from the Securities Act) to the public at $54 a share...
Charles Johnson was under sail in the days of windjammers. Mostly he shipped as a cook, and in the galley learned how to use a knife on raw meat. When one of the crew broke a leg or tore an arm Cook Johnson and the captain used to patch him up. There was generally a "doctor's book'' on board which gave directions. Two years ago senility and a burned leg drove Charles Johnson to New York City's Home for Dependants on Welfare Island. When they asked him what he could do, he told them...