Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wondered why "the mother who taught me what I know of tenderness and love and compassion taught me also the bleak rituals of keeping Negroes in their place." To think out and try to solve that problem, she has written Killers of the Dream, a red-hot Freudianized tract against racial segregation, which is certain to anger even more Southerners than her Strange Fruit...
...with practically no success. In 1828, the last Spanish Franciscan withdrew. It was not until the century was almost over that American Franciscans decided to take up the work once again. With three monks they began St. Michael's in an abandoned trading post on a 160-acre tract of land...
Star Dust. In Texas' Scurry County, on a 1,700-acre tract leased by Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, drillers brought in a 1,000-barrel well, their second in two months. Hope and Crosby and their two Texas partners promptly began drilling two more. Near by, Don Ameche, who had leased 21,600 acres with three Chicago partners, had put up $200,000 to sink a wildcat. Just east of the small town of Rotan, Tex., where he had leased 1,500 acres, Randolph Scott and his partner found oil sands at 5,700 ft., hoped...
Mulling over the conversation, Mrs. Grant determined to get decent houses for Negroes, decided to build them herself. She got together over $100,000 to buy a 50-acre tract in south Los Angeles, and started looking for money to finance the building. Not a banker in town would listen to her: "Ideals are fine," one told her, 'but you must, be practical." But Mrs. Grant kept wearing them down; finally, the Bank of America, which prides itself on financing the "little fellow," agreed to stake her to a $2,290,000 loan...
Desiring a reliable standard of smoking habits, Dr. Marjorie Mills Porter and I queried people of both sexes and colors, and all ages above 20, in every tract of Columbus, Ohio, and then checked the findings against representative groups in Cincinnati. We are thus not guessing when we say that coronary victims of all ages are abnormally addicted to tobacco smoking...