Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mock trial to raise funds for King Edward's Hospital Fund, Lord Riddell, newspaper proprietor, in a white top hat, with a bottle of port at his elbow, sat in judgment upon Actresses Gladys Cooper, Viola Tree, Lilian Braithwaite and Elizabeth Pollock, whom Author John Drinkwater, as prosecutor, sought to convict of "practicing undue domesticity and so neglecting their...
...tung oil. were Mr. Bennett's first interest. Fie was manager of Woolson Spice Co. when the Havemeyer interests bought it in 1899. He went into the brokerage business, then in 1907 organized F. H. Bennett Biscuit Co. At the time he had not heard of a tung tree, nor of the rich oil its walnut-like nuts yield. But in 1905 seeds for the first tung tree in the U. S. had been brought from Hankow and planted in the Department of Agriculture's experimental farm at Chico, Calif. In 1907 seeds were also planted in Florida...
...Tung trees produce some nuts in their third year but usually it is the fourth to sixth before the crop is satisfactory and the tenth before they are in full bearing. Taken care of, the life of a tree should be about 50 years. The flowering season is in April. In November the first frosts knock the nuts to the ground where they are allowed to dry for about a month before they are milled. After the oil is extracted the cake can be used for insecticide and fertilizer...
...when ambitious Martin Davey, Ohio tree surgeon and onetime Congressman, tried to draft Woodrow Wilsons Secretary of War for the primary, Mr. Baker sat down hard on the idea. He would not let his name go on the ballot. He insisted that "all hands" favored Governor White. He went on about his Cleveland law practice as if he had never heard of the Presidency. Mr. Davey, no friend of Governor White, was accused of promoting the Baker boom more to hurt White than to nominate Baker...
With spring's arrival he unearthed himself, discovered other cave-dwellers in the frozen land. Fast learning the local lore he quarried himself another home and, besides providing for his own wants, worked up a profitable business on the side. Not a tree grows on those islands; but the summer influx of gold-miners and coal-miners must have wood. Trader Welzl wangled wood from whaling boats, finally imported provisions from Alaska. Soon he was rich enough to buy a $100,000 share in a trading boat. Tales of his adventures in New Siberia and elsewhere, an account...