Word: smalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rigid Federal quarantine around the infested areas had imperiled a $60,000,000 fruit crop. Five thousand workers fought the fly. Into long trenches fresh fruit and truck were dumped, covered over with lime and earth as a means of exterminating the pest. Florida's so-called Little People (small growers) were hard hit, lacking as they did resources for such an emergency. Congress had already appropriated $4,800,000 to control the spread of the fly in Florida, to exterminate it, i resident Hoover, at Secretary Hyde's suggestion, had spoken promisingly of the moral obligation" resting upon...
...Small roads, owned by industries, sent their cars far over big lines, offered little transportation in return...
...legislature. In the last ten years, Connecticut governors have approved bills leisurely, long after the three-day period. Last week the Connecticut supreme court of errors threw the state's legal machinery into serious confusion by invalidating, through a test case, 1,493 laws, large and small, which governors had thus signed unconstitutionally. Jeopardized were the gasoline tax, city charters, banking laws, the amusement tax, public appointments, salaries. One act disqualified was the act increasing the salaries of the judges who voided...
...small roly-poly porpoise sporting pompously in a pool would not be happier than was Egypt's plump, glistening little King Fuad in London last week. For four years His Majesty and his ministers on the Nile have been dictated to, nay openly bullied, by the British High Commissioner to Egypt, sleek, superior Baron George Ambrose Lloyd of Dolobran. Last week, in humiliating circumstances, the High Commissioner was forced to resign by his own Government, which at first withheld public explanation. In the House of Commons a teapot typhoon of invective rose...
Like some pigmy umpire nervously staging a handshake between quarrelsome giants, small Norway last week brought Imperial Britain and Communist Russia into their first diplomatic contact in more than two years...