Word: pets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During his entire twelve-week trip Brown heard only two broadcasts of Command Performance, the special 30-minute program which fills soldier requests for anything from a violin solo to the bark of a pet dog. Worst hindrances are lack of equipment and delays in transportation; one transcription record that arrived a few weeks ago turned out to be a cheery Christmas program...
Maxine did not mind so long as everybody looked nice, had some traces of manners, played games and were not "too tiresome" about Kiki. Kiki was Maxine's pet lemur which used to attack the guests, upset breakfast trays, invade beds, leave "traces of its passing wherever it chose...
...Government as Minister of National Defense when Mexico entered the war. His revolutionary, agrarian reforms have been modified under Avila Camacho, but in the main they survive. Busy with war work, Cárdenas maintains his mystical quiet, seems unperturbed when his leftist supporters scream that some of his pet projects have been butchered...
Other Plant Rubbers. On the opening day of the conference Rubber Director William M. Jeffers in Washington announced the curtailment of one of chemurgy's pet projects, the culture of guayule in the Salinas River Valley, Calif. The 50,000 acres already planted should produce 20,000 tons of natural rubber by the end of 1944, but the plan for 100,000 additional acres, perhaps 500,000 acres later, is now abandoned. Food is needed more than rubber, and is more profitable to the farmer...
...other hand, the several hundred who credited T. R. with his kid cousin's pet agencies like the NRA and the WPA weren't serious no matter what the Times may like to say, and his collection of animal heads, while famous, is on a par with the more prevalent Mr. Jones of railroad prominence...