Word: grows
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Naturalist Howard Atwood Kelly of Baltimore. Dr. Kelly told the committee about the grandeur of the vast mangrove swamp with its rare white ibis and roseate spoonbills. He impressed upon his listeners that the district harbored the only tropical bird rookery in the U. S. Then, lest the committee grow bored, he released a slithering grey & yellow king snake five feet long...
...abolished Dec. 31. Small in itself, red tape and the juggling of likin rates by provincial collections to allow for "squeeze" have held up and reduced the shipment of goods, have helped stifle the development of China's interior provinces.* Lest U. S. and other foreign exporters grow too exuberant, Finance Minister Soong announced at the same time that the government must have $40,000,000 (gold) more revenue annually, that the Chinese tariff would be raised either Jan. 1 or Feb. 1. Unofficial rumors gave the new rates as: From To Wine and rolled tobacco.27.5%, 50% Automobiles...
...Henry Ford undertook to grow rubber in Brazil. His idea was not to use the wild trees, but to clear the jungle, adopt the plantation method, use selected seeds. Great were the tales of what Ford Initiative plus Ford Ingenuity plus Ford Resource plus the fertile Amazon soil would produce...
...Theatre Guild has collected seven pretty girls, a gang of cowboys, some border ballads, and a good many dirty jokes, which it has woven into a play that is called, for want of anything better, "Green Grow The Lilacs." When all this was done a plot involving a swash-buckling cowhand, a shy young maiden, and a villian whose hands dripped with the blood of past crimes, was added for the sake of convention. The result is supposed to represent the Indian Territory...
...late the papers have been glutted with news, essays and articles on the Soviet regime. There are rumours that Stalin is fighting for a lost cause; there are defiant denunciations which proclaim Russia a strong child that will soon grow up. No one knows what to believe. The world is waiting, a bit impatiently...