Word: opener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decreed by the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (TIME, Feb. 21), and detailed by practical Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace in 22,560 mimeographed words of crop regulations, the 2,500,000 cotton growers in the U. S. can sell their yield without penalty in the open market this fall only if they have numbered identification cards which have been duly issued and signed by AAA county committeemen...
Thousands of blackshirted Fascists and cheering farmers tramped into a freshly cut wheat field near Aprilia one day last week to hear Premier Benito Mussolini officially open Italy's harvest season. Bustling up to Aprilia, one of the towns built on land reclaimed from the Pontine Marshes, in his automobile, Il Duce stripped to the waist, clambered atop a threshing machine. There he proceeded to blast away at early-spring predictions by observers in the U. S., Britain and France that Italy's vital wheat crop would fall far below normal this year. Folding his brawny arms across...
First Ship Through Bonneville Dam (Sat. 1 p.m. CBS) passes through locks to open The Dalles, Ore. to ocean commerce...
Married. John George ("Johnny") Goodman. 28, U. S. amateur golf champion, onetime (1933) U. S. Open champion; and Josephine Kersigo, 27, his sweetheart from childhood who devoutly makes novenae before his major contests (TIME. June 6); in Omaha...
...gentleman who also carried a big stick-stern Judge Gary of U. S. Steel Corp. Since Big Steel at the turn of the Century had 65% of the total ingot-steel capacity, Judge Gary could easily knock into line any other company which disregarded his price policy. But open price-fixing was illegal, so Judge Gary would give dinners for all the steelmasters; somehow, when the demitasse came round, everyone knew what to charge for steel. In 1911, when the Government was ready to jump on this arrangement, the industry adopted a new procedure. Since then, whenever the Government...