Word: seeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gold Dust had similar trouble with the cotton seed oil, feeds and other derivatives made by the American Cotton Oil Co. which it absorbed in 1923. The cotton oil business did not pay. Gold Dust abandoned it and pushed the sale of cleansers made by the American Cotton Oil's subsidiary, N. K. Fairbank Co. Those cleansers are Gold Dust, Fairy Soap, Sunny Monday Soap and like products. To them President Morrow late in 1925 added by purchase the shoe polishes of the F. F. Dalley Corp.-Shinola, Two-in-One, Bixby brands. Early this year he was negotiating...
...twelve Federal land banks. The U. S. started these banks off with $750,000 capital each. They can loan money to help farmers to buy land; to purchase equipment, fertilizer, seed, livestock; to build buildings; to liquidate mortgages. Interest may not exceed 6%. Loans up to $25,000 are given on 50% of the appraised value of land and 20% of permanent improvements. Borrowers have to join local National Farm Loan Associations, buying stock in the banks equivalent to 5% of their loans. In this way, the U. S. has received most of its capital back and the Land Banks...
...bullet no bigger round than a seed-pearl would kill a man if projected through his heart, brain or spinal cord. But martial experience has found 30/100 of an inch to be about the ideal diameter for man-killing bullets. The prize-winning Thompson weapon is .30 calibre...
With him, Schneider took American stocks, ewes, rams, cattle of various sorts being the gifts of contributors to the mission. New seed was also imported in order to introduce into the country, if possible, new and stronger American strains...
...lack of artistic sophistication: No European culture was budding let alone flowering, in as short a time as has elapsed since the settlement of America. Aesthetic minds are attained only after material effort stagnates; preeminence in culture implies that the young vigor of a nation has gone to seed, and a more mature blossom has taken its place. The South, and Greenville especially, seems to be overflowing with this young vigor, and when it turns to fields of art, its materialism becomes painfully obvious. Trousers on the Apollo Belvedere is enough to make even the unaesthetic North smile...