Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Total crop value: $8,580,528,000, an increase of $84,740,000 over 1928. From 367,082,000 acres harvested, crop yields were 5% below last year's, due to widespread drought...
...lives against the Farmers' National Grain Corp. created and largely financed by the Federal Farm Board as a direct cooperative sales agency for grain growers. Last week's development: the Senate Lobby Committee summoned Julius Howland Barnes to tell what, if anything, he knew of a secret widespread movement among private grain commission men to "restrain the Federal Farm Board," to undermine its attempts to establish a quasi-official enterprise competitive with private business...
...such common stuffs as turpentine, petroleum, starch, coal tar or acetylene. News of goldenrod as a likely rubber source gave the casual daily press opportunity to picture farmers sneezing as they harvested the autumn-gorgeous weed. But goldenrod pollen is one of the lesser causes of hayfever. Ragweed, more widespread, is the chief cause...
...announcement in today's CRIMSON of a minimum board charge of $7.50 in the new Houses comes as a gesture of sympathy to the widespread opinion that the former charge was too high. A few men will benefit by the change, but the chief evil in the system has in no way been mitigated. With an average price of $.75 per meal, only the most wealthy can afford to take advantage of the plan and by eating breakfast in the House free themselves from the necessity of eating a disproportionate number of lunches and dinners there. Since these...
...possibility that Saturday night's raid is part of a widespread enforcement effort suggested itself last night, however, when rumors were current that a series of Bostonwide raids were being made with the aid of half a dozen Harvard undergraduates, It was reported that students in the University, piqued at paying exorbitant prices for bad liquor, were "getting even" with the bootleggers. The CRIMSON was unable to obtain accurate facts as to the alleged connections between Harvard undergraduates and enforcement officers...