Search Details

Word: hoes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Though a skilled laborer can work fast enough to earn $14 a day at it, President W. W. Hall of Idaho College, after an all-day, back-breaking job with the short-handled hoe, earned only $1.25. Faced with more than 70,000 weedy beety acres, the Governor offered as much as a week off .with pay to any State employe,who would turn to. To meet the crisis, WPA projects in all beet-growing communities were abandoned, able-bodied reliefers were drafted. Holidays were declared so that tradesmen could help. They did their best, but to farmers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Crisis in Beets | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

Hall, B.; Hewitt, J. W.; Harrison, R. C.; Hinners, D. G.; Hoe, E. L.; Holmes, E. B.; Houghton, A. N.; Humphrey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW HOUSE MEMBERS | 5/20/1942 | See Source »

...wise to her co-star's propensity for stealing scenes, neatly takes the picture away from him. Rooney cannot sing, but Judy Garland can, and proves it pleasantly with such sure-fire numbers as Waiting for the Robert E. Lee, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones; a new tune called Hoe Down; and a misfit: Chin Up, Cheerio, Carry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 19, 1942 | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

While conducting their own experiments, Army ordnance officers are intently watching operations at American Fork & Hoe Co. (of Cleveland, Ohio), where steel shells are actually being made for the Canadian Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Steel to the Breech | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

...solitary Japanese boy on the U.S. West Coast, to serve as houseboy, to hoe fields of Japanese truck gardeners, to wait on table, to be a hotel busboy, gave him a hard core under the candid and mannerly exterior; certainly it taught him that there was only himself to fend for himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: So Delicate Situation | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | Next