Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newspaper correspondents have steadily stressed the fact that Russians are harvesting bumper wheat crops this year (TIME, July 3). But they believe that there is still famine, left over from last year's poor crop. Nervous, the Soviet Government last week bottled up all foreign correspondents in Moscow, refused to permit them to travel in the provinces unless it could be certain what they are looking...
...most expert. He has Floppy jump in front of the car, gets a blonde into the back seat while Lawyer Calhoun steps out to investigate, threatens a scandal unless Lawyer Calhoun helps him free Mrs. Stevens. Later he congratulates Floppy on his performance of holding the bumper with one hand while smearing his face with imitation blood as the car slows down. Says Floppy: ''I thought it was adequate." The Nuisance is not an important, not even a particularly original picture but in its genre it ranks higher than
...Take a bumper...
...break the relief plan. A short cold summer with excessive rainfall or a long blistering drought can reduce crops to such a point that President Roosevelt might have an acute food shortage on his hands. On the other hand an ideal combination of sun & rain can produce such bumper crops as to wipe out all trace of acreage cuts and send prices slumping to even lower levels. One year an acre will produce 12 bu. of wheat, the next 24 bu. Such is the gamble Secretary Wallace must take...
...best work; to tell the truth, this is the only Jolson picture that the reviewer liked at all. Al, as mayor of Central Park, extols the virtues of the open air, while his friend, Frank Morgan, in the role of Mayor Hastings of New York, although converted to Bumper's care-free life of leisure, is tied down by official and private responsibilities. Complications on sue when June Marcher, Madge Evans in screen life, jumps off the bridge when Bastings unfortunately thinks that she is not faithful to him. Bumper rescues her, she has amnesia; Bumper reforms, gets...