Word: helpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small part they leave standing for forage, the rest they plow under for fertilizer. Fifteen years ago Dr. Orland Russell Sweeney of Iowa State College began to look for cornstalk byproducts. Five years ago Iowa built him a $150.000 testing plant, the U. S. Bureau of Standards began to help with men and money. Dr. Sweeney produced and the state of Iowa patented a cornstalk wallboard, light, strong, cheap. Last week a million-dollar company was formed in Chicago to lease and exercise Iowa's patents...
...Likewise, the City Planning Commission of Philadelphia last week announced that famed French landscape Architect Jacques Greber had been retained to help beautify Philadelphia...
Editorship. When Edward Bok went to the Ladies' Home Journal in 1889, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis knew he had hired a crusading editor. Once he enlisted the aid of Dancers Vernon & Irene Castle to help stamp out the pernicious tango, turkey trot, bunny hug, supplanting them with the more sedate polka, gavotte and schottische. Evangelically he tried to keep drinking scenes from the fiction of his publication. He engaged a doctor to give advice to young mothers through the pages of the Journal. Some 90,000 babies were said to have been thus magazine-reared. Of his trials and triumphs...
...cannot help but admire the dignity and big mindedness displayed by the Americans in the manner in which they assumed the control of Eastern Samoa. . . . No threats, no bad names. . . . Everything goes on serenely. . . . So it should. "The Mau of American Samoa is jubilant over the turn of affairs. Headquarters for the Mau have been built. At the opening ceremony the Governor [Captain Graham] attended and presented the Mau with a flag." Embarrassed by the situation in Western Samoa was Britain's Labor Government last week. Three courses seemed open for the solution of this latest Empire problem: 1) Western...
...biggest tract made safe for private chasing since King William had his idea about the woods in Hampshire. Workmen are pulling down wire fences, putting up rails, stone. Some of the farms will be rented "under strict agreement" and the rents, like King William's pigs, will help pay for the hunting...