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Word: seeds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Onion King" is Benjamin Balish, a big Manhattan produce jobber who was made chair man of the Onion Committee last week. Meantime, the possibilities of a contest for the unsavory job of being U. S. "Onion Queen" remained unexplored. Last week in Denver, however, a seed dealer named Armin Barteldes, elated by a record seven- acre yield of 227,558 Ib. of onion sets (small onions fortransplanting), betook himself to a dancing class, picked out 15-year-old Dolores Volk, crowned her Colorado's "1936 Onion Set Queen." Queen Volk, who lives with her mother in Greeley, Colo., donned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Onions | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

...Continuation of [drought] relief checks . . . seed loans and other necessary assistance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Two Bids | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

...pull down schools of learning, or which is all one to take away the oyl from the lamps, denying or withholding maintenance from them." The acorn had been planted, the young tree was alive, but its growth was slow beyond the expectation of those who had brought the seed to a wild, new continent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TERCENTENARY ORATION | 9/18/1936 | See Source »

...lost their wheat crop, lost their corn crop, lost their livestock, lost the water in their well, lost their garden and come through to the end of the summer without one dollar of cash resources, facing the winter without feed or food-facing a planting season without seed to put in the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Journey of Husbandry | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...relief workers to build roads, construct dams to save water and through the Bureau of Biological Survey to restore refuges for wild fowl. With $20 a month grants and loans to buy forage, RA will help others to rehabilitate themselves. AAA will help them with $10,000.000 worth of seed loans, with some $30,000.000 to buy livestock. And NYA will provide financial aid so that their children will not have to leave school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Biography of a Blister | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

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