Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quibble at the tremendous wealth that has fallen to Yale. Since taking office. President Angell has doubled ($3,098,000 to $6,900,000) the amount annually expended for maintenance and instruction. He has trebled ($35,000,000 to $100,000,000) the value of the University's plant. He has quadrupled ($25,000,000 to $95,000,000) its endowment. Nevertheless, by the uniformity rather than the magnitude of their growth do Yale College and the Yale graduate schools testify to the spectacular pedagogical husbandry of President Angell...
...Texas-such was the "shelter belt" that Franklin Roosevelt proposed two years ago to protect the dry edge of the prairies from dust and wind. Estimated cost of the project was $75,000,000. Relief funds were allotted, 20 nurseries leased to grow seedling trees, destitute farmers employed to plant them out. Some $2,900,000 has been spent on the project, 45,000,000 trees planted. Last February the Department of Agriculture asked for $1,000.000 more to carry on the work. When the Department's appropriation bill got to Congress, the $1,000,000 asked was promptly...
...trees planted in 1935 about 80% have perished. But, Congressmen found that in this tree-planting scheme as run by the Forest Service there was no "pork" whatever. What was the use, asked Congressmen, of spending $75,000,000 or more to plant over a billion trees, if the natural protector of the prairies was not trees but grass...
...most legislative matters, in conference. Nurserymen have on hand 60,000,000 seedling trees which the Government has paid them $4 or $5 a thousand to raise. For $2.25 per 1,000, the trees can be raised for another year or two until of suitable age for planting out. For about 50? per 1,000 they can be packed and shipped. To plant them would cost $86 per 1,000. The conference quickly decided not to scrap the 60,000,000 seedlings, but not to go to the expense of planting them. Instead they should be reared to planting...
Amarillo is a cow, oil & gas town put on the map by the uncomplimentary comments of Gene Howe, editor of its Globe-News, on Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and Mary Garden. Seven miles away lies a Federal gas processing plant which produces most of the world's helium. Waco makes its living from cotton, has a Cotton Palace, an annual Cotton Festival and Baylor University. "Dr. Pepper," the South's famed soft drink, originated in Waco and the late Mary Louise ("Texas") Guinan was born on a nearby potato ranch. San Angelo makes its living from sheep...