Word: dark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Richard Whitney's bid of $2.05 per share for U. S. Steel on a dark day in 1929 was spectacular and hero making [TIME, March 14], how would facile TIME describe someone (the writer for instance) who, even today, would gladly, and with less substantial sponsorship, match Whitney...
...Wallace quota on any crop can only be imposed if a two-thirds majority of voting farmers favor it. Last week, 1,189,496 cotton farmers voted for, 97,456 against a quota. Biggest majority was South Carolina's (96%), smallest Oklahoma's (76%). Dark tobacco growers voted for a quota 38,209 to 8,746, flue-cured tobacco growers...
This year's cotton quota has already been set at 26,300,000 acres, to produce a 10,125,000 bale crop (8,621,000 under last year's). Dark tobacco quotas will be 145,000,000 Ibs., flue-cured tobacco 705,000,000. Fines for over-productive farmers, whether they voted for or against quotas, will be two cents a pound for cotton, 50% of the market price for tobacco. Said Administrator H. R. Tolley, "We consider the vote an overwhelming endorsement of the new farm program...
Approaching the awkward age, Shirley is not quite so dewy as she used to be. Paced by the dark veteran, Bill Robinson, through two simple tap routines, one to a pleasing tune called Toy Trumpet, she seems something more than a doll, something less than a little girl. Her singing, almost free now of the lilting lisp that has three times made her No. 1 Oh-&-Ah cinema champion (TIME, Jan. 3), sounds much like that of any little Sunday-morning radio aspirant...
What must be combatted even more energetically than war propaganda itself is the current skepticism toward happiness. A renaissance of faith in democracy, of trust in the ability of the United States to weather the storm, is sorely needed. Even if it appear like whistling in the dark, this renaissance should be supported by young college graduates today. It is the most sensible and altruistic attitude to take...