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With every farmer, holding up a moistened finger to the spring winds, were the hopes of the nation. In 1943, year of food shortages, a late freeze would be tragic, a long drought disastrous. The weather, long the biggest news in the billion acres of U.S. farm country, was now full of meaning for the most sheltered city dweller...
...drought of the past two weeks is ever, with Count Basic moving into the RKO Boston. This would be good news if the memories of how Duke Ellington's engagement was botched up weren't so strong. If you caught the date, to band was put so far backstage as to be practically out in the street, and the result was only a jumble of noise, rather than music. Even worse was the choice of numbers which Duke was forced to play...
Customers for big-league ball clubs do not grow on trees. But scarcely had the ink dried on the Nugents' check (guestimate: $39,000) when a half-dozen syndicates were scrambling for the Philly franchise. After several days Manhattan Socialite William Drought Cox, 33-year-old lumber broker who lost a reported $40,000 in the defunct New York Yankee professional football team, chirped up: "I'm the lucky...
When Derry was commissioned, only a handful of Navy people were on hand. In a country where two weeks without rain is considered a drought, civilian employes of two U.S. construction companies sloshed through ankle-deep mud, grading, putting up Quonset huts, getting machinery under some kind of cover. Every nut, bolt and machine had come by convoy from the U.S. and so-25 days after the commissioning-did about 300 Navy technicians...
Waitresses are actually quitting their jobs, says John W. Mason, Continental Hotel headwaiter, because poor tipping makes war jobs look bigger and bigger, but even during the pourboire drought, Harvard men are always good tipsters. At least when they come to the Continental...