Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shortly after 8:30 o'clock Nominee Landon, who planned to spend the night with a friend in St. Joseph. Mo., rose to : bring to an end one of the strangest interludes in the history of U. S. presidential campaigns. As the two new friends parted to resume their strenuous contest for the nation's greatest prize, Franklin Roosevelt said: "Well. Governor, however this comes out, we'll see more of each other. Either you come to see me or I'll come...
...anti-New Deal argument is that citizens on relief are supported in such comfort that they lose all desire to find jobs, improve their circumstances. Last week in Seattle, scrawny Ester Hilda Olson, 33, confessed that she had bashed in the head of her pretty, 16-year-old daughter Rose with an axe, cut her throat with a bread knife, buried her in a thicket near their shack. Explained Mother Olson: "I thought I was doing Rose a kindness by killing her. I was tired of living like an animal and raising her that way. I've been...
...valuable and the coins were melted down by a greedy public. Fifty years ago this greyish white metal sold for $5 an oz., a quarter the price of gold. Then uses for it began gradually to be found, in jewelry, in electrical machinery, in chemistry. Before the War platinum rose to $45 an oz. Russia produced 95% of it, recovered up to 300,000 oz. a year. The War shut off the Russian supply, sharply increased the demand, for platinum is used not only as a catalyst in the manufacture of nitrates and sulphuric acid, but also in the detonating...
...Texas Rangers (Paramount) represents Hollywood's most determined effort to date to capitalize that glorious period of a State in the making, of which the amusement possibilities have already been so strikingly demonstrated by Showman Billy Rose and his Fort Worth Nude Ranch...
Since corn is the staple hog diet, "corn on the hoof" (i.e., hogs) last week rose too. Headlines read: RETURN OF THE $12 HOG. As corn passed wheat, it became too dear to feed hogs, whose diet was thereupon switched to wheat, which is a better meat-builder, anyway...