Word: pine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...garden and a sow, A smokehouse and a cow, Twenty-four hens and a rooster And you'll have more than you uster. Last summer Harvey Crowley Couch, public utilitarian of Pine Bluff, Ark., chanted that solution for rural Depression as he boarded a train for New York. Last week President Hoover appointed this president of the Arkansas Power & Light Co., the Mississippi Power & Light Co., the Louisiana Power & Light Co. and the Louisiana & Arkansas Railway to be one of the three Democratic directors of the potent Reconstruction Finance Corp. Aside from his demonstrated ability, Director Couch could thank...
Sleighs jingled merrily through Finland's pine forests, snowplows roared up and down the streets of Helsinki (Helsingfors). In a nationwide, nose-nipping blizzard last week hardy Finns decided by ballot between continuance of Prohibition and inauguration of State Liquor Control...
...Hulking pungs slide off quietly into the slashing behind the pump horse. The new town truck drones along the highway casting up furrows of white foam. With a sharp jar as the sled strikes ground, a cheerful gnome starts off belly flopper down the hill to school. A tall pine stands out in the pasture with the blackness of a widow in her weeds. There is the delicate, syncopated tinkle as a Morgan in a red cutter swerves through town. The mountains stare down upon the valleys grown old, and spare, and bleak over night. Young boughs trail their white...
...packing company bought him for $1.27 per lb. on the hoof, lowest price paid for Steer of the Year since 1923.* Nevertheless, in more ways than one Briarcliff Thickset made history. His breeder and owner was not a Midwestern cattleman but a retired New York financier, Oakleigh Thorne of Pine Plains, N. Y. And not in 31 years had an Eastern steer beaten all the animals of the West and Southwest. Runner-up was a shorthorn called Illini Major, raised on the College Farms of the University of Illinois...
...composer, who made a parlor song of Mrs. Coolidge's The Quest (TIME, July 7, 1930), appeared in Washington. He plans to hunt and set to music lyrics written by wives of U. S. Presidents, such as Mrs. Herbert Hoover's free verse "interpretative of the discarded pine rafters of the White House," which she carved into gifts. Composer Madison had with him a religious song in which Washington's First Congregational Church became interested. There, where President & Mrs. Coolidge worshipped, a Miss Ruby Smithstahl will arise this month or next and sing...