Word: potatoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Agriculture, warned farmers not to sell their wheat crop too hastily. The northern hemisphere is raising 2,873,000 bushels of wheat this fall. This is a trifle more than last year. But the world's rye crop is 92,000,000 bushels less than last year; the potato crop will be less; Russia probably will have no wheat to export; people are demanding more wheat (as flour) than ever before...
...fireproof tile materials, synthetic lumber, insulating materials. Dr. Henry Granger Knight pointed out that it rests with the farmer to decide whether it is more profitable to sell his waste products in bulk to industrial concerns or to exploit them himself. He discussed the manufacture of alcohol from grain, potato, fruit residues; utilization of unfit lemons for making citric acid, working up steam waste into carbon, illuminating gas, acetic acid, furfural;* new methods of using lactose, casein, starch, sucrose, dextrose, etc. Old Foes. Molds have always been considered food destroyers, ruining bread, milk, fruit, everything on which their furry hairy...
...gauche little play needed no such apologetic introduction. In it was unfolded the story of a favorite daughter of Idaho, who, after attending an Eastern college, returned to the potato dad hills of her native state, followed by her fiance. Local entanglements of politics and domesticity prevented her immediate marriage. She was compelled to wait while her two sisters ran away from their husbands, while her maiden aunt gave a despondent tirade upon the subject of celibacy and while her father was appointed, after much political turmoil, to the bench of the Supreme Court. In the meantime, she got herself...
When John D. Ryan's father migrated from Ireland in 1847, two years after the great "potato" famine there, the belief current abroad was that the U. S. was paved with gold. The father found, of course, no gold covering the Michigan district where he eventually betook himself. But below the surface he found a metal far more useful to the industries of man-copper. He discovered the rich Baltic coppermine in the Lake Superior copper-district, and he managed the Hecla mine. The son, however, when he reached manhood, at first would have nothing to do with copper...
Misshapen and frayed as a badly done potato pancake, the old horned toad that lugubriously blinked in the Eastland, Tex., drugstore window last week proved all the lies that Texans had ever told of Nature's antics in their state. The reptile had lived for 31 years in the sealed hollow of the local courthouse cornerstone. So averred honest men who had just dug it out, and one remembered having planned to put a horned toad in the stone at its laying 31 years ago. The idea then, and even now, in Texas is that a horned toad...