Word: rust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obscure last stand against Hitlerism, many German parents have been forbidding their children to join the Hitler Youths and German Maidens who are excused from school one day each week for "party activities." Last week such parents sighed despairingly as blunt Minister of Education Bernhard Rust decreed that every German schoolchild without exception must study one day each week and take examinations on the anti-Jewish, un-Christian and pro-Nazi propaganda works of Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, august Supervisor of the Intellectual and Spiritual Training of the Nazi Party...
...thought, that the people who have neither acquired syphilis nor inherited brains which are decayed by this disease are the important individuals to be protected from the damage of this "rust on the wheat...
...Rust. Almost forgotten in last week's excitement over Canadian wheat were two big questions about U. S. wheat which have been bothering domestic experts for many a week. One was the old one about how much wheat the U. S. will produce this year. The other concerned the effect of rust on the U. S. crop. About rust and its ravages little is known except that winter wheat is seldom damaged by it because the stalks grow tough before the blight appears. But tender spring wheat is particularly susceptible this year because of late seeding. Rust reports flowed into...
Last week, however, a sturdy, efficient and economical picking machine seemed at hand. The South was abuzz with conjecture. The machine had been nursed through long years of experiment by its inventors, John D. Rust and his brother Mack. On one side of their harvester is a tunnel-like opening from front to back so that the machine straddles the row of plants. Into this opening a line of small, smooth, revolving rods project sideways. Carried on an endless belt, the rods first pass through a moistening device, then comb through the cotton plants. Because the rods...
...Brothers Rust were born on a Texas farm, orphaned in boyhood. They picked cotton. John swore that some day he would invent a cotton-picker to eliminate that back-breaking toil. He learned engineering and drafting from correspondence courses. Because he remembered that his grandmother moistened her spinning wheel to make cotton stick to it, the idea occurred to him to try a smooth, wet spindle on a mechanical picker. Soon he was joined by Brother Mack, who had graduated from the University of Texas and gone to work for General Electric Co. in Schenectady. Their first machines were tried...