Word: pease
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some Japanese beetles which got into Princeton's gardens of pedigreed primroses were major news last week to two international learned bodies?the International Congress of Eugenics meeting in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History and the International Congress of Genetics meeting at Cornell (Ithaca, N. Y.). There are...
¶On the Tariff Commission's recommendation President Hoover last week upped the duty on green peas (3? to 3.9? per lb.) and McKay sewed shoes (20% to 30%). He downed the duty on egg plant (3? to 1½? per lb.), green peppers (3? to 2½? per...
¶ Learned from Minister of Agriculture Sir John Gilmour that Britain's emergency tariff on industrial products (TIME, Nov. 30) will shortly be extended to tax up to 100% imports of fresh cherries, currants, gooseberries, hothouse grapes, plums and strawberries ; fresh asparagus, green beans, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, chicory, cucumbers...
Notably exempt from increases were: all kinds of grains, rice, flour, meal, hay, alfalfa, straw, cotton, fresh fruits not mentioned above, potatoes, peas, beans, flaxseed, sugar beets, horses, cattle, sheep, goats, hogs, logs, fuel wood, railroad ties, excelsior, sawdust. No increases would be permitted on any carload to exceed by...
Side Show (Warner). The romance of the circus, the glamour of sawdust, calliopes, and spangles has long been celebrated in song & story but particularly in stories written for the cinema. This one follows the accepted outline. It gives glimpses of a circus train in motion; a plump bibulous circus-proprietor...