Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ennyway, brother, I think you've got somethin there that might be worth continuin. You fellows over in Marion, Ohio always was darn good organizers and sum of the best apple sauce ever made in the country came from there. If your apple butter was only half as good, it was dam good stuff, and so you kin put me clown as a charter member...
...dockyard to Russia in the early days of the revolution, devoted himself tirelessly to instructing comrades in "American technique." Soon he became a Soviet citizen, presently returned to tour U. S. industrial centres and buy, for the U. S. S. R. a total of more than $30,000,000 worth of automotive machinery, plans, parts, cars and tractors. Today the main streets of Moscow are just beginning to present a traffic problem, thanks to several thousand little cars closely resembling Ford sedans, all Soviet manufactured under the management of Old Bolshevik Dybets-kicked last week...
Wheat. With a crop now estimated at 885,950,000 bu., largest since 1931, and last week's price of $1.05 a bu., the U. S. wheat crop is worth about $1,000,000,000. Wheat has already been harvested, so the department estimate is pretty sure to be right. Including last year's 90,000,000-bu. carryover, wheat on hand amounts to 975,950,000 bu. of which some 775,000,000 bu. will be needed in the U. S. With 200,000,000 bu. more to dispose of, the U. S. may become an important...
Peanuts. Of the problems facing farmers who produce minor crops, a good example was provided by peanuts. Last year's peanut crop totaled some 630,000 tons (normal 450,000), worth $44,000,000. This year's is about the same. Peanut farmers were not included in the original AAA, but after a price shambles brought on by a 560,000-ton crop in 1934, they were taken into the fold. Last week, in order to keep this year's crop from drugging the market, AAA officials in Washington held a conference with 100 representatives of growers...
...that every one has returned from the summer vacation full of exciting stories about running into a New Bedford steamer in a blinding fog or chasing some lovely female up and down the hills of Bermuda on a bicycle, the Vagabond feels inclined to interject his peseta's worth. He too has traveled and done things...