Word: hurts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russia, whose modern industrial towns are still only islands in a green sea of wheat and rye, Uzbegs, Georgians, Crimeans, Ukrainians and Russians prepared to march upon the 40,000,000 acres of grain. Despite insufficient snowfalls, which hurt winter wheat, wheat and rye crops though poor in quality were about average in yield. This year for the first time half of Russia's grain was to be harvested by combine, but as by June 11 Pravda and Izvestia reported, only 46% of the combines had received needed repairs. Spare parts were missing, experienced mechanics and drivers lacking, while...
...wild tropical storm the steward slips overboard, the ship yaws blindly past Panama City, finally comes to a desperate, forced landing in a South American jungle. One prop is bent, one motor dead, the radio transmitter out, but nobody is hurt...
...since the Exposition was already playing to small audiences before the Fair opened, it is doubtful that transcontinental competition has hurt San Francisco's show so much as lack of showmanship. To cure that defect the Exposition last week took a promising new managing director to succeed the dethroned Harris Connick (TIME, May 15). Smart, baldish New Director Dr. Charles Henry Strub, onetime ball player and chain dentist, present-day Santa Anita race-track operator, is all for brisker ballyhoo and livelier amusements. He may yet make Treasure Island a bigger attraction. Most notable of its present sights...
Belgium suffered at 95°, and only Congo officials home on leave thought the temperature bearable. Lack of rain hurt the Belgian fruit crop. Karlstad, Swedish manufacturing town, had the hottest weather for Scandinavia (86°), and Stockholm consumed 183,400 cubic meters (48,417,600 gallons) of water in one day. Drought meant bad crops and forest fires for Sweden. Copenhagen reported three deaths from sunstroke...
...swung out into the express train's path. It bounced off the locomotive, cut through the side of a day coach, tore open the front of one sleeping car and stove in the roof of another. A conductor on the express was killed. At least 39 passengers were hurt. Burrell Wilhelm was unscathed...