Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Firm and wide proportions...
...will take 52 hr. - 6 hr. less than the old schedule. Regular basic fare is $24, plus $5 for a berth, upper or lower. Built by General Motors, the nitecoach has berths for 25 including five double-berths 47 in. wide, which cost $7. Single berths are 29 in. wide, 6 ft. long...
Selenium-Poisoned Wheat-Selenium, a poisonous metallic element related to sulphur, has been found in such quantities in the soil of Wyoming and South Dakota that Dr. Horace Greeley Byers, Government soil chemist, considered a warning advisable. Said he: "In a wide variety of plants, including wheat, growing upon those areas, selenium was present in concentrations ranging from traces up to quantities which are deadly to animals. In many cases the selenium present produced chronic diseases which may ultimately cause death. . . . Preventive measures should be taken. It seems, however, that no serious concern need be felt except in the areas...
...continue to believe that the greatest future of your company lies in using a substantial but varying portion of the capital in special situation such as reorganizations and the financing of new capital issues, rather than in keeping all capital invested in a wide list of securities dealt in on the leading stock exchanges. While we carefully investigated many such opportunities during 1934, prudence dictated extreme caution in placing large amounts of capital into any immobile form of investment until an upward trend could be seen with greater clarity...
...General Court of Massachusetts ordering the production of such materials "as will perfect the making of gunpowder, the instrumental means that all nations lay hould on for their preservation. . . . Every plantation within the colony shall erect a house in length about 20 or 30 foote, and 20 foote wide within one half year next coming ... to make saltpetre from urine of men, beastes, goates, hennes, hogs and horses' dung...