Word: worthlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trucks were hired to convey troops to the camp from Buffalo and Manhattan at a cost of $95,000. All told, there were nearly 3,000 motorcabs engaged in the maneuvers as compared to 1,337 horses and mules. There were also 55 tractors, three tanks (not counting 27 worthless relics of the War) and a detachment of motorized cavalry. The three Christie tanks, eleven-ton monsters, were capable of traveling 60 m.p.h. on roads, 30 m.p.h. over hill & dale. The mechanized detachment of the ist Cavalry (at present stationed at Fort Knox, Ky., where the Treasury is building great...
...pages), slow-moving tale, Honey in the Horn is distinguished for its easy humor, for its wealth of authentic local color wrapped around a slight and artificial plot. Clay Calvert, Oregon orphan, was herding sheep for Uncle Preston Shiveley when Wade Shiveley, one of Uncle Preston's worthless sons, was jailed for having murdered and robbed a gambler. Uncle Preston did not want to be bothered any longer with an offspring who had caused him only misery, persuaded Clay to slip Wade a defective pistol, on the assumption that Wade would try to escape with it and be killed...
...Floyd Odium, no-socialite, lives quietly at Forest Hills, L. I. where he belongs to the West Side Tennis Club but plays no tennis. His favorite relaxation is modeling clay figures in the evening. He has fashioned enough to fill a room, but always squashes them back into worthless lumps before he goes...
...most prosperous in the world. The cotton of the Chaco has received the highest recognition for quality, and during six months of 1934 the Mennonite colony alone exported 300,000 kilograms of cotton. Do these facts bear out your statement that Bolivia and Paraguay went to war over a worthless pestilential land? So much for the "green hell...
Left. By Inventor Thomas Alva Edison: a gross estate of $2,871,758. including worthless stock in 39 companies formed for Inventor Edison's research work...