Word: seeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress, some 400,000 individual farmers had received $47,064,319 up to last week. Arkansas led with $9,292,000. The Department of Agriculture appealed to the Department of Justice for legal help because in some cases a farmer's creditor has tried to seize his seed loan while it lay on deposit in his bank. Last week the Treasury was astir with plans and proposals for handling a deficit which threatened to repeat itself next year. Secretary Mellon announced an $800,000,000 18-year bond issue at 3⅛%. Its size was the largest, its interest...
...Seed (Universal). In a sentimental effort to set forth the disadvantages which may result from having too many children. Author Charles Oilman Norris wrote in Seed the story of how bothersome progeny caused an ambitious writer to leave his wife, take up with a lady who had less exaggerated views on domesticity. Birth control is not a precept which the cinema is encouraged to advertise, but the producers of Seed found an easy way to escape the apparent necessity for doing so. By making his five children a very minor reason for the writer to leave home and a major...
Simultaneously Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde announced that the Government had loaned 98,924 farmers $15,159,058 for "feed, seed and fertilizer," and "agricultural rehabilitation" (i.e., food). Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas got more than $1,000,000 each, Arkansas $3,654,626; 23 other States the remaining half...
...very sage observation that: ". . . The market to be worth while on the opposite side of the deep valley will make the crest market, the sharp-witted traders will benefit for and the good-sized profit as from the basement to the roof will multiply for the small seed money and an occasion to pour a water over the sleeping ears...
Judges of Manhattan's 18th international flower show held an opening night dinner. Guest of honor was J. H. van Royen, Minister from The Netherlands (whose 1930 flower bulb & seed exports to the U. S. were...