Word: pest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outbreak of the War blocked export. In 1892 Boll Weevil had crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico. The spreading infestation over-took expanding cotton production after 1914, reduced the 1921 crop to the smallest (8,000,000 bales) in a quarter-century. But planters learned how to fight this pest, increased their acreage, pushed their production up & up. In 1926 they set a new record of 18,000,000 bales. Last year they grew some 14,250,000 bales of which less than half found a market. To a carry-over of 9,000,000 bales the South this year...
...President Hoover's decree 79 foreign cities last week found themselves officially designated as unhealthy places. Effect of the Hoover order: a U. S. diplomat or consul who serves one year in any of 79 "pest holes'' gets credit for 18 months toward his retirement. World travelers were not surprised to find on the list such notoriously uncomfortable communities as Aden, Arabia; Canton, China; Baghdad, Iraq; Dakar, Senegal; Guayaquil, Ecuador; Leopoldville, Belgian Congo; Monrovia, Liberia and a host of Central American cities. What they found hard to understand, though, was the stamp of unhealthiness the Government...
Although the gusher was not on school property, a test well will be. Like the University of Texas, Oklahoma City schools benefit from municipally-owned oil lands. There are 27 producing wells in Trosper Park, two more on the pest house grounds, total royalties from which so far have been...
...summer visitors view as an eyesore and a disgrace. Visitors and villagers alike look down on the Pelters: the feeling is reciprocal. But the old Captain Embury, retired sailor, No. 1 citizen of Mirthful Haven, who could always make his voice heard above "the roarin' of the tem-pest," likes the Pelters, likes especially to watch young Edna as she comes out of school across the way. Neither Edna nor her father are particularly reputable, are thought to be light- fingered, but no one has ever got the better of their resourceful independence. Edna adores her father; he likes...
...witnesses, Harry Reutlinger of the American, testified that to get rid of Brundidge, who "had made a pest of himself," he had filled him with fanciful tales of newspaper-racketeering, even told him that he, Reutlinger, was a racketeer...