Word: seeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...experimenting with fertilizers, millions buying power & light systems, millions financing the sale of electrical gadgets, $100,000 trying to make soft coal smokeless. They have built roads, transmission lines, a town and a tourist camp; planted 2,751,000 trees, 7,000 kudzu vines, nine tons of grass seed; started teaching elderly mountaineers trades and have generally created more hubbub than the Valley has seen since Grant took Shiloh in 1862. Most of the Valley's 2,000,000 souls gape in awe at the everlengthening procession of TVA wonders. Some are very angry indeed...
...lend to farmers to buy hay and feed. 5) $50,000,000 to retire some 16.000.000 acres of "chronic" drought land in the Dakotas, Wyoming. Montana. 6) $50,000,000 to send young men in the drought area to special work camps. 7) $25.000.000 for seed loans...
...State to repay a "mercy debt." Taking the cue, Governor J. Marion Futrell of Arkansas declared : "Gratitude calls upon the people of Arkansas who are able to do so, to show their appreciation and to show that they never forget a friend." Last week 20 carloads of hay, cotton seed meal and cake and other livestock food rolled out of grateful Arkansas bound for prostrate South Dakota...
Sirs: ARTICLE On WESTERN DROUGHT COMPREHENSIVE [TIME, May 21]. SINCE PUBLISHED DAMAGE DOUBLED AMERICA'S YEARLY WHEAT CONSUMPTION FOR FOOD SIX HUNDRED MILLION FOR SEED SIXTY MILLION FOR EXPORTS FORTY MILLION FOR RESERVE TWO HUNDRED MILLION TOTAL MINIMUM REQUIREMENT AT LEAST NINE HUNDRED MILLIONS STOP PRESENT SURPLUS EXAGGERATED LARGELY IMAGINARY SITUATION SERIOUS...
...founder of Great Western Sugar, biggest beet sugar company in the U. S. Born in 1852 in Thuringia, heart of the German beet sugar country, he peddled hardware in the boom mining towns of Colorado. When he visited Germany again in 1898 he brought back a bag of beet seed, helped set up Colorado's first beet mill at Grand Junction. Great Western today operates 22 factories, 13 of them in Colorado, produces annually 10,000,000 bags (100 Ib. per bag). Charles Boettcher is vice president and member of the executive committee. His son Claude Kedzie Boettcher...