Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...understand there was a tree-planting at Oslo and that a street in Hamburg, my last post, is also being named after Washington...
Last week President Edgar Winfred Stark of Stark Bros. Nurseries & Orchards Co., Louisiana. Mo.,* flourished the papers which gave him the first patent in the world on a fruit tree. It covers his Hal-Berta giant peach tree. The Hal-Berta, President Stark excitedly sets forth, "bears uniformly large, rosy-cheeked, delicious to eat, yellow-fleshed, freestone peaches, many of them weighing more than a pound, ripening a few days after the Hale-Elberta [peach] season when a truly high quality peach such as the Hal-Berta Giant will mean profit to the man who grows them and pleasure...
...Airport one day last week as the doors of the largest airplane hangar in the world were rolled hack to reveal what U. S. aircraft manufacturers had to offer for 1932. Within the hangar some 50 air- planes of assorted sizes stood among upright pillars disguised to look like tree trunks. No decoration scheme could conceal the fact that there was more empty floor space than in any previous National Aircraft Show. The planes on display numbered only half of last year's. But the exhibitors assured each other that they, who had answered this roll call, were in business...
...Last South Carolina tornado, that of 1930, is recalled by Negroes as the ''chainaberry" storm." Reason: many a chinaberry tree, its close-twigged top offering purchase to the wind, was uprooted and whirled aloft over the country-side...
...only squeals once, when she topples over a precipice and is barely saved by a ragged rope. The final test of her imperturbability comes when she is kidnapped by a yodeling athlete in a loin cloth who swings her up to his nest at the top of a tree and turns out to be Tarzan of the Apes...