Word: westernization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sulphate Fog. Just within Canada on the western border is a copper plant which belches forth a fog of copper sulphate, destructive to orchards in the State of Washington for miles around. Washington, D. C., has, so far unsuccessfully, attempted to dispel this sulphate fog. but control over the winds seems the solution...
...from her brief career. That may not be so good as Gene Tunney did, but at least it looks as though she knew what she wanted even if the business men of Kansas who put the cash up for her start in art did not. And now the mid-western ingenue has an opportunity to show her gratitude to a nation of music-lovers by helping to solve the country's agricultural problem. Meanwhile, explaining to magazine fans why she did not choose to sing may be a profitable side-line...
Sirs: The death yesterday of Bishop Charles Henry Brent of the Episcopal Diocese of Western New York has come as a great shock to his many admirers...
...decline were: 1) the unionization of Labor with its new power to dictate higher wages, to call gory strikes, to obtain protective laws; 2) increased taxation; 3) increased cost of power. The mill owners cast anxiously about for a refuge from their troubles. The South, particularly the western sections of the Carolinas, seemed attractive...
Natural Art and Fine Art met, last week, in sunny congress on a California hilltop at the western terminus of the Lincoln Highway, overlooking the burnished haze of San Francisco. There stands California's memorial to her War dead, the Palace of the Legion of Honor, an edifice filled with many treasures, including the life of Joan of Arc in Gobelin tapestries, gift of France...