Word: peat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summer of 1845, on an Irish air long heavy with the smell of dung heaps, peat bogs and the personal reek of an ill-kempt and poverty-ridden citizenry, a new and more awful odor arose. Sulphurous, acrid, "like the smell of foul water in a sewer," it came from the almost-ripened potato plants, lay so thick that in some places it was visible as a whitish cloud above them. Where it appeared, leaves turned first purplish-brown, then black; stems withered, so that they broke at the touch, oozing a pus-colored liquid; the potatoes, when dug, were...
...Senator Burton K. Wheeler over Republican George M. Bourquin, a onetime Federal judge who once remarked: "This court may be in error but it is never in doubt''; in Montana. Republican Senator Warren R. Austin over Democrat Fred C. Martin, after a desperate Administration attempt to re peat the Pennsylvania victory in the land of milk and marble; in Vermont. Senator Robert Marion La Follette, running for the first time as a real Progressive, over Republican and Democratic nonentities; in Wisconsin...
...Wisconsin to New Mexico, from Illinois to Montana. Up soared thermometers in Bartlesville, Okla. (101°), Bismarck. N. Dak. (102°), Manhattan, Kans. (103°), St. Joseph, Mo. (104º St. Paul, Minn. (105°), Huron, S. Dak. (106°), Morris, Ill. (107°), Sac City, Ia. (108°). Peat bog fires ate their way into the city limits of Milwaukee, while townsfolk panted in an all-time high temperature of 103°. At 102°, Chicago missed by less than a degree its all-time top torridity. Flushed and groggy, schoolchildren were sent home in Des Moines and Minneapolis...
...retirement lasted only a few months. While inspecting some Michigan peat deposits in 1904, Mr. Olds received a wire from a group of his fellow businessmen in Lansing, offering him the management and control of a new automobile company using his initials for a name. R. E. Olds thus became the founding-president of Reo Motor Car Co. Olds Motor Works was later one of the original divisions of William Crapo Durant's General Motors, but Mr. Olds and Reo have been stoutly independent for 30 years. Last week the white-crested old motorman, who has been inactive...
Near Aurora, Ill. L. W. Talbot, driving a truckload of piglets to the Chicago stockyards, had to stop when the road was blanketed by a cloud of smoke from peat fires. Behind him came another truckload of pigs driven by Ellis Johnson, who drove into the smoke, smashed into the rear of Talbot's truck. Behind Johnson came a string of five automobiles. One by one they disappeared in the smoke cloud, each ramming the car ahead. Eighth in line was Elmer Reiser who, suspecting a holdup, swung into the left lane and sped ahead. He smashed into...