Word: wilds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Selective breeding of plants that will grow out of the tropics, such as the wild guayule shrub of Texas and Mexico was recommended to U. S. manufacturers now endangered by Britain's rubber monopoly. Guayule does not contain rubber as latex (milky sap) but as small particles among its fibres. The shrub must be cut down and pulverized to extract these particles, less than a pound to each bush. None the less, President George H. Carnahan of the Continental Rubber Co., showed that guayule plantations totaling only 1,000 sq. mi. would supply 25% of this country...
...raced for diamonds last week. Ungallant they raced against 120 women, two expectant of motherhood, most clad in running skirts in one piece bathing suits. Raced also some 15,000 professional diamond prospectors. At the crack of a South African police rifle they strained legs, lungs, hearts, in a wild scramble to stake out claims in a newly opened sector of the Transvaal diamond district...
...sudden failure of the electric plant all lights went out at about 9 p. m. While many a tourist, not frightened by gun fire, shrieked with alarm at the innocuous darkness, Arab servants rushed about, knocking over tables, chairs, in a wild scramble for candles. Once light was restored, the panic guttered. Said one Harry Patterson Hale of Boston, tourist, to newsgatherers who boarded the California: "It was well worth the risk in going to Damascus, for the city was the most interesting* one that we visited on the cruise...
Mongolia's climate changed. Dry winds shriveled the vegetation; drifting sand built hills on old lakebeds. What had once been a green animal paradise became a desert called Gobi, sparsely inhabited by a sturdy but backward breed of humans, together with herds of wild asses, antelopes, domesticated sheep and draft camels. The centuries passed...
...felt at once that this book was a long time in the writing; that, now it is here, it constitutes a distinguished contribution to the abiding literature of this continent. It must have grown, as it grows upon the reader, like a vine of bittersweet or wild grape covering a stone wall. It is similarly eloquent of Nature, similarly unobtrusive, hardy and humbly fair to behold. It is the story of a Kentucky hill child, Ellen Chesser, groping instinctively through a scrawny, vagabond adolescence, with no attention from her roaming, horse-swapping, white-trash parents. The father settles...