Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition there are wires running to the Cruft Laboratory, where phonograph records will be made. The whole system is in duplicate, so that if any part of it breaks down, it can be switched instantly to the other line. And in case of rain, the exercises will be able to be transmitted from Sanders Theatre or Memorial Church in the same...
...Detoured for some drought inspection of his own while returning to Topeka from Des Moines, chatted with a few farmers, was stopped by pouring rain...
...chapter and sentence by sentence Author Coyle tried his composition out on a Maine fisherman and the fisherman's wife. Result: Uncommon Sense. Further result: 50,000 copies have been ordered by the Democratic National Committee. Theme of Uncommon Sense: "Saving for a rainy day only makes it rain." With lucid plausibility David Cushman Coyle expounds technological unemployment, the arrival of an economy of plenty, the advantages of economic nationalism, the congenital wickedness of high finance. The blame for Depression he places on men who invest part of their income instead of spending it. His solution is high income...
...having a hard time making a go of it." "Any water on this place? Have you a well?" "Everything is burned up. I haven't harvested a thing." "Well," cried the President as he left with a cheery wave, "everything is going to be all right." Roosevelt rain began to fall as the President got back to his train to find 5,000 cheering Bismarckians awaiting him. "Back East," he told them, "there have been all kinds of reports that out in the drought area there was a despondency, a lack of hope for the future and a general...
...been widely used by the U. S. Press as a sample of the drought in the Dakotas. Of this "gem among phony pictures," the Fargo Forum declared: "There never was a year that this scene couldn't be produced in North Dakota, even in years when rain- fall levels were far above normal. What we see here is a typical alkali flat, left when melting snow water and spring rains had passed. . . . Without difficulty one can find these in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Indiana wherever one chooses. The skull? Oh, that's a movable 'prop' which comes...