Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grasshopper war is expensive. Dutton's division expects to spend some $4-500,000 of emergency funds this year-and next year may be worse, for grasshopper populations have a way of building up over a series of years. But the effort pays off: the Agriculture Department claims that every dollar it spends on scotching grasshoppers saves $55 worth of crops...
When a $10,000-a-year official of the RFC, John Hagerty, took over the $30,000-a-year presidency of Waltham Watch Co. (TIME, May 9), many a congressional temper flared. For Hagerty, as the RFC's Boston manager, had recommended the $9,000,000 loan (later cut to $6,000,000) that enabled Waltham to reorganize. A Senate committee began digging into the RFC's records, found that the RFC had been an open door to high-salaried jobs in other companies which it had bailed out. In 4½-years, 20 RFC employees had joined...
...From a line in one of his poems, which was inspired by the ancient legend: "As the vibration of one branch may be felt through the forest, so the influence of one man may rouse a nation from apathy...
...wolfs down an Indian massacre, two murders, a barroom brawl, an earthquake, a fistfight on a cliff top and a mess of hocus-pocus dealing with the whereabouts of a fabulous treasure trove. Leading the sepia-colored scramble for gold are Ida Lupino and Glenn Ford. Kids under twelve may believe in their adventures...
...Window. Killers stalk a twelve-year-old witness (Bobby Driscoll) through a jungle of Manhattan tenements (TIME, May...