Word: haile
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Every tourist who has roamed Seville's romantic Moorish palace or Alcazar can picture vividly the scene of last week as swarthy, cloaked Moroccans entered to hail the Generalissimo with flowery thanks and extravagant Mohammedan promises which he returned in kind...
...plan was as simple in theory as it is certain to be complex in operation. In good years, the farmer pays a portion of his crop as an insurance premium, and the Government stores the premiums away. In years of drought, flood, hail or insect plague, the Government draws on its reserve to compensate the farmer for his crop losses. Thus the farmer is insured against financial disaster, the nation is insured against hunger, and both are insured against the price dips and soars of alternating surplus and scarcity...
...such limitations as these are thoughtfully recognized by the legislators in Washington, a perfectly rational and practical system of crop insurance appears possible. There is every cause for the desirability of stabilizing farm buying power in this way, and the heartening of farmers through protection against hail, drought and grasshoppers...
...Suvoroff, Rozhestvensky's flagship, was soon put out of action. The hail of shell-splinters flying into the conning tower thrice wounded Rozhestvensky. Soon no one knew who was in command of the Russian fleet. All that could be done was to follow the ship ahead, until it sank or fell out of line, turning in helpless circles. By nightfall (the action began at 2 p. m.) the Russians were trying only to escape. Till midnight they were harried by torpedo attacks. Next morning brought the main Japanese fleet again to mop up the survivors. By then most...
...reported near Los Angeles, of 12° in the Imperial Valley. Los Angeles awoke under a pall of smoke from millions of smudges. It was so dark that lights were burned till afternoon. San Diego had its first snowfall in history (the Government meteorologist described it as "soft hail"). A second night of low temperatures followed. Traffic crawled and tangled on the darkened roads, while hundreds of oil trucks were given the right of way, carrying fuel to the smudges. All this meant industrial tragedy to California's citrus fruit industry (save for oil, the biggest business...