Word: southwesterner
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...Adopt a 1¢-per-gal. import tax (i. e. tariff) on crude oil and gasoline. Unsuccessfully (190-10-97) did Representatives from the Atlantic seaboard attempt to block this concession to the Southwestern oil producers. Next day the House chaplain opened the session by reciting . . . Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies; Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. (Psalm...
...Harvard Observatory has received over thirty letters in answer to their announcement requesting all who saw the brilliant meteor in the southwestern sky last Wednesday night to write in details concerning size, shape, color, tail, duration of light, and accompanying noise. The notice even evoked a letter from Los Angeles describing an astral visitor, but since meteors are never visible until within 100 miles of the earth when there is sufficient atmosphere to afford combustion and the curvature of the earth is approximately seven inches for every mile, the meteor could not have been the one that P. M. Millman...
...appearance he personifies the Southwestern statesman of a past era. Full-bodied, he has slender legs and phenomenally small feet. His face is round and soft, yet handsome. On his wavy black hair, worn longish, he pulls down an oldfashioned, broad-brimmed black felt hat. His clothes are dark and a trifle tight. Black bow ties cover his collar button. An instinctive politician, he has a ready smile, a friendly chuckle, hosts of one-name friends. He is a Knight of Pythias, Son of the American Revolution, Methodist Episcopalian (South), all in good standing. He smokes cigars, chews...
...will not make their fixed charges for 1931: Bessemer & Lake Erie; Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh; Chicago & Eastern Illinois; Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville; Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific; Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha; Colorado & Southern; Elgin, Joliet & Eastern; Illinois Central; Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie; Mobile & Ohio; Pere Marquette; St. Louis Southwestern; Southern; Wabash; Western Pacific...
...industry which is waxing in the South is the dairy business. Because the climate is mild and the grazing season long, in the past five years Kraft-Phenix, Southwestern Dairy Products, Southern Dairies (subsidiary of National Dairy...