Word: rowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Florida fruit fly problem rested more heavily at the moment upon Secretary Hyde than it did upon the Board. Florida banks were failing, 24 in a row. A rigid Federal quarantine around the infested areas had imperiled a $60,000,000 fruit crop. Five thousand workers fought the fly. Into long trenches fresh fruit and truck were dumped, covered over with lime and earth as a means of exterminating the pest. Florida's so-called Little People (small growers) were hard hit, lacking as they did resources for such an emergency. Congress had already appropriated $4,800,000 to control...
...owned only by the king and a few favored nobles. Later this privilege was extended to two great medieval corporations, the Honorable Company of Vintners and the Worshipful Guild of Dyers. A ceremony was instituted, whereby representatives of the King, of the Vintners and of the Dyers were to row up the Thames each summer marking and dividing between them all the little brown cygnets which had been hatched that spring...
Powerfully built, determined of mien, Tycoon St. Davids entered the meeting room early, ignored his place at the Directors' table, aggressively took a seat in the second row of chairs allotted to debenture stockholders. After a time the other directors entered in a body, among them towering Tycoon Kylsant and the Duke of Abercorn. Rapidly they took their places until all the chairs at the Directors' table were full except one-the one ostentatiously left vacant by Viscount St. Davids. As the room quieted to a deadly hush, Baron Kylsant glanced sharply at the vacant chair, frowned, then...
...Wright Jr. of Canada, son of the University of Pennsylvania's oldtime rowing coach (who was there to watch him row), lost by three feet the Diamond Sculls, which he won last year, to Holland's L. H. F. Gunther...
...MOTHERS AND CHAPERONES FOREIGN GIRLS FILLING BOXES AT EACH END FIRST ROW NEXT TO STAGE STOP ANNOUNCED BOX OFFICE HOUSE ENTIRELY SOLD OUT ONLY STANDING TICKETS LEFT