Word: dreams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate, Secretary Wallace made a long defense of the shelterbelt program, and the Senate finally put back the $1,000,000 appropriation. Last week the fate of the great 1,200-mile dream belt was settled, as are most legislative matters, in conference. Nurserymen have on hand 60,000,000 seedling trees which the Government has paid them $4 or $5 a thousand to raise. For $2.25 per 1,000, the trees can be raised for another year or two until of suitable age for planting out. For about 50? per 1,000 they can be packed and shipped...
...night last week on the island of Hawaii, a Territorial Forester named Leslie W. Bryan had a vivid dream. In it he saw a dirty, ragged, wretched soldier at a certain lonely spot on the slopes of Mauna Loa. Before daylight Forester Bryan was on his way to that spot. He knew that for a week an alarm had been out for Private Edward Deal, missing from an Army rest camp. Sure enough, at the spot he had seen in his dream, Forester Bryan found dirty, ragged, wretched Private Deal, saved his life...
...check up on his mind, Mr. Dunne took to writing down as much as he could recall of his dreams as soon as he woke up. With practice at this he found he was able to recall more & more of his dream-stuff. He persuaded friends to try it. A few of them declared that they never had any dreams. But when they tried jotting down what they could remember while still in the half-doze of waking, they were often able to recall a good deal, were usually amazed hours later at what they had scribbled...
Friday Evening, June 5 "Entrance of the Boyarda"Halvorsen *Overture to "Fra Diavolo" Auber *Scherzo, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Mendelssphn *"By the Beautiful Blue Danube," Waltzes Strauss -- *"The Animals' Carnival," Grand Zoological Fantasia Saint-Saens Introduction and Royal March of the Lion, Cocks and Hens, Horses of Tartary (Fleet Animals), Tortoises. The Elephant, Kangaroos, Personages with long ears, The Cuckoo in the depth of the forest, Planists, The Swan (Solo xioloncello, J. Langendoen), Finale. Planes: Jesus Maria Sauroma Leo Litwin Prize Song from "Die Meisteringer von Nurnberg Wagner *"Pathetic" Symphony, No. 6 Tchaikovaky Third movement--Alegro molto vivace -- *Selection...
...Africa to hunt, the naturalist went to the rich Kodakman and said: "Mr. Eastman, I've got to have $1,000,000." Eastman offered to pay all the expenses of an expedition, to give $100,000 besides for transportation and reconstruction of material. Carl Akeley's dream was beginning to come true. Next year he died of fever in Africa, was buried in the high gorilla country which he loved. With such a good start, however, the museum was eager to go ahead with the project. Money was forthcoming from other wealthy people, most of whom demanded only...