Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those parts of Kansas and states of the North Central region where corn is the chief crop, farmers will be told how much corn to plant, get an extra 5% added to their soil-diversion bounty if they obey. If they exceed their planting limit, there will be a deduction for each extra acre. Thus the Department, fearing a surplus which would send corn and hog prices crashing, hopes to bring corn acreage from 1932-33's 59,000,000 and last year's 54-500,000 acres down to some 54,000,000 acres. Reluctant to discuss...
...cost of one. Last week's merger, no surprise in view of this advertising deal, meant that Publisher Peck was to retire from the newspaper field. Still on his hands was the Times-Union shop, not included in the $900,000 deal because the Eagle's present plant, built in 1930, has ample press facilities for the Times-Union's daily circulation of 84,358, its own 88,921 (as of October 1936). The Eagle's Editor Cleveland Rodgers, a onetime typesetter, is to keep his duties, while on the other side of this united publishing...
...Spanish physician whom American Indians taught to smoke tobacco introduced that indigenous American plant to Europe in 1558. Sir Walter Raleigh, whom Sir Francis Drake taught to smoke a pipe in 1586, made smoking fashionable in Elizabethan England. Now the tobacco habit is so deeply fixed among mankind that U. S. consumers alone last year bought 134,607,741,257 cigarets, 4,763,883.947 cigars, 95,875 tons of pipe tobacco, 18,030 tons of snuff. That smoking is not injurious to the vast majority of smokers is attested by the microscopic size of the anti-tobacco movement...
...simple. The smoker must cease abruptly and completely. Whenever he wants to smoke, he swallows a capsule containing one-eighth grain of lobeline. This is a drug which smells, tastes and affects the human system almost exactly as nicotine does. Nicotine comes from the leaves of any tobacco plant (Nicotiana), lobeline from the blue flower of the Indian tobacco plant (Lobelia inflata), a common U. S. weed which Indians used to smoke with true tobacco leaves. Lobeline, however, is not habit-forming as is nicotine. Dr. Dorsey has never found it necessary for a patient to take more than...
Educators yearn to take over a part of the nation's radio plant and run it to suit themselves. Director Levering Tyson of the Rockefeller-endowed National Advisory Council on Radio in Education had warned the 500 educators invited to the Conference that "any discussion of such controversial subjects as the allocations of wave lengths will be scrupulously avoided." Two years ago Congress overwhelmingly rejected the Fess and Wagner-Hatfield bills calling for a definite allocation of wave bands for educational purposes. Last week more cold water was thrown on that hope when Chief Engineer T. A. M. Craven...