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...week, bobbing lazily on the swells. For days the native grapevine had hummed through the outer islands of the Bahamas, carrying the news that "the King" was coming. Loyal island blackamoors streamed in to see him, unaware that the King was now only a Duke. In a tangle of livestock, cooking utensils and wriggling-black babies, they sat on their crowded decks, awaiting the "Rejoicin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rejoicin' Day | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

...their own food wants. Already Germany has found it necessary to send 40 cars fitted for emergency relief service into occupied Belgium and France; while the Dutch have ruined much of their arable land by opening the dikes against the Nazi invasion, and may soon have to slaughter their livestock for lack of fodder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Bare Cupboards | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

...Barn Dance goes on the air at 7 p.m. (C.S.T.), is sponsored in pieces of 15 minutes and more by Alka-Seltzer, Keystone Steel & Wire Co. (fences), Murphy Products Co. (poultry and livestock feeds), Woodmen Accident Co. (insurance), Edward Funk & Sons (hybrid seed corn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Howdy, Evvabuddy | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...Father Robinson (Thomas Mitchell) piously announcing that, as they have two of each kind of domestic animal, their livestock will increase and multiply. Anguished chorus of Robinson boys: "Our flocks will, but how about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 19, 1940 | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...Code de la Famille sponsored by Finance Minister Paul Reynaud. In line with democratic morality and approved by the church, it provided: 1) State payment of cash bonuses to married couples for each child born within two years after the wedding; 2) State loans for agricultural equipment and livestock to French farmers on a ten-year basis, with progressive cancellation of part of the debt for each child born within the decade-fifth birth cancels all; 3) taxation of bachelors and childless couples to pay costs of birth boosting; 4) doubling of the legal penalties for abortion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Battle of Births | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

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