Word: signed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...until last autumn. Over 40 buildings had to be erected, two whole golf courses bought, cut up into sod and used to grass the Exposition. For the last few months, 7,000 to 10,000 workmen have been working three shifts a day. On every job was a big sign reading " - days until June 6. We shall not fail." Last week the fateful numbers on the sign fell from 10 to 9 to 8 to 7 and still buildings were going up, statues being cast. Among the buildings likely to be incomplete was the State of Texas building, but still...
...researchers observe closely to see whether she shows any sign of interest...
...until the turn came of Chief Kolchavteewah. For a moment, to Franklin Roosevelt's surprise, it looked as if Kolchavteewah was going to kiss the Presidential hand, but the Redman's lips never actually touched the Roosevelt flesh. Following an old Indian custom, he made a secret sign. Then the tribesmen did a buffalo dance on the lawn, and the President drove...
...pasture of the Plains, the inrush of speculators in the wake of the railroads. A homesteader's plow bites into soil held together by the deep roots of prairie grass. Warns a voice: ''Settler, plough at your peril!" A grizzled farmer observes, without comprehending, the first sign of drought. Then comes a Wartime boom in which higher & higher prices are quickly followed by more & more wheat planting until the grass that once bound this country together has given way to endless fields under a parching sun. Finally, to mournful music by Composer Thomson, are shown the ravages...
...notable group of U. S. industrialists, journalists, chemists and farm experts gathered in Dearborn, Mich, just a year ago to sign a "Declaration of Dependence Upon the Soil and of the Right of Self-Maintenance." This curious document was presented for signature by Francis Patrick Garvan, flag-waving head of the Chemical Foundation, was duly signed in Henry...