Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Only 12% suggested death as a way out. Most of these callously told Lonely Man to shoot himself or jump off North Hill viaduct (favorite local suicide spot...
...Sore spot of the Conference was the mosquito problem. According to conservationists, drainage ditches of the eastern U. S. (end to end, they would belt the world at the equator three times) have dried up swamp vegetation, starved out wildlife. And all for nothing, according to Dr. Clarence Cottam, chief of the Biological Survey's division of food habits. Said he: "The millions of dollars spent on mosquito control had resulted in more U. S. mosquitoes last year than there had been in the previous ten." Some of the mosquito projects, he said, were "comparable to curing dandruff...
...father's daughter any reader of Through Embassy Eyes will quickly see. Her account of the increasingly uneasy four and a half years the Dodds spent in Berlin is like a series of blurted indiscretions. But no one could live so long in such a focal spot in complete diplomatic immunity: some of what Martha Dodd has to tell is worth listening to, and now & again she pokes the nodding reader in the ribs with a shrewd bit of prattle...
journalism are the Sauk Centre Heralds, Archbold Buckeyes, and Oologah Oozings that deliver homey news to 17,000,000 small-town and rural Americans. In the U. S. newspaper business, country weeklies of their kind are a big bright spot. While the urban dailies wane, the rural weeklies wax. Since 1929 they have gained in numbers,* circulation and advertising lineage, while the daily group has fallen...
Soon learning there was no spot cash up that alley, the young inventor turned to more practical pursuits. To earn money for his first pair of long pants, he invented a thief-proof auto lock which netted him $25. At 19 he was working in a railroad yard. Then he landed a job in the fund-raising office of George Everson, a San Franciscan with brains and friends...