Word: potatoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Enough Land. Over the Middle West, through the Deep South and into Texas, through the corn belt, the wheat belt, the cotton belt, from the potato farms of Maine and Idaho to the orange groves of Florida and California, the 25 kinds of soils in the U. S. gave up their annual products. There were 6,288,648 farms in the country in 1929, with a total acreage of 986,771,016; there were 6,812,350 in 1939, covering 1,054,515,111 of the 1,900,000,000 acres in the U. S. The week the war began...
...Most of its potato crop of 364,208,000 bushels was in, and rows of dusty vines, weeds, crabgrass covered the stripped fields of Idaho; the half-buried potato houses were filled. Rice production was set at 50,000,000 bushels; sugar beets at 10,677,500 tons...
Long-armed Governor Lewis O. Barrows of Maine triumphed for the second straight year in the annual potato-picking contest between the Governor of Maine and the Governor of Idaho, 382½ to 365 pounds. Said Champion Barrows: "I did it by just sticking my nose in the row." Said worsted Governor Clarence A. Bottolfsen: "That's hard work...
...student at The Bronx Public School 44, he made the track team by learning to jump the gun without detection. After he won a shorthand championship with a broken finger by ingeniously sticking his pen through a potato, he became a demonstrator for the Gregg shorthand system. His specialty was taking notes with both hands from a phonograph chattering 350 words a minute. This inhuman proficiency took him to Washington, aged 18, as organizer of the stenographic force for Bernard Baruch's War Industries Board, where he had occasion to record the thoughts of such dignitaries...
...come near to succeeding. He now controls five newspapers-two Amarillo dailies (plus a Sunday edition), two others in nearby Lubbock, and the one his father Ed, the late famed Sage of Potato Hill, left him at Atchison, Kans. He controls four Texas radio stations. His headquarters are in Amarillo and there he organized and now operates an annual Mother-in-Law Day, attended last year by Eleanor Roosevelt. His own mother-in-law lives with him, his wife & daughter. He has helped dedicate Amarillo's new post office, given Postmaster Farley an Arabian saddle horse, acted as chief...