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...with shovels. Some farmers put their faith in the "hopper dozer," a shallow tank about 20 ft. wide, filled with kerosene, which is mounted on wheels or runners and pulled along by a horse at each end. Rising from the back edge of the tank is a screen of tin or oilcloth. At the approach of the "dozer" the grasshoppers leap into the air, strike the screen, fall into the tank. Turkeys are known to be great eaters of grasshoppers but the Department of Agriculture declared last week that even if all the turkeys in the U. S. were concentrated...
...brother Ira watched over him, George Gershwin died. Serious musicians joined pluggers and crooners to mourn the 38-year-old composer who had made the world sing his songs and who never, even in his most pretentious work, disdained the antic, impertinent data he had picked up in Tin Pan Alley...
...first trip across, like the ones that followed, came near being the last. Forced by decrepit freighters to crawl along at eight knots, they lost their best defense against U-boats: speed and zigzagging. A submarine needed only 15 seconds to let go with a "tin fish." Tales about previous submarine victims did not help to relax the nerves any. The first attack came at night, in a grey light that made a submarine invisible except for a dim white ripple. The torpedoes missed by a hair. When an oily patch showed where the submarine had been, the five-inch...
Years ago an astounding character named Garabed Bishirgian emerged from Armenia to gamble in rugs, caviar, tin and finally pepper with such success that he was known as the "Pepper King," threw parties which were the awe of London and owned a model farm in Surrey on which he raised 600 thoroughbred pigs even fatter and greasier than their owner. In 1935 "Pepper King" Bishirgian joined with his friend "Tin King" John Henry Charles Ernest Howeson in an attempt to corner the pepper market. When a bumper crop threatened their corner, they resorted to a fraudulent stock issue which brought...
Interviewed by newshawks in his office at the Winterhalter School, Janitor Denhardt calmly displayed his two caps (one with a special officer's badge for directing traffic), a tin lunch bucket, a neat list of his day's duties beginning "Faucets to be repaired," a pile of English and German books. No ordinary janitor, Adam Denhardt was a German teacher for 33 years until he was pensioned off in 1924. When he and his wife Agate went to the U. S., leaving their three daughters behind, the only job he could get was one as "house father...