Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...southern Texas last week pelting rains flooded creeks and rivers, drowned 28 citizens, destroyed some $2,000,000 worth of crops, livestock and other property. Almost everywhere else in the vast U. S. granary between the Appalachians and the Rockies farmers tramped sun-baked soil, watched their crops wither and their parched livestock totter, prayed for rain...
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace predicted that the drought would be worse than that of 1934 unless rain came before July 20. "I would say," said he, starting West on a tour of inspection, "that the situation today looks as bad as it did in 1934, when Congress voted us $500,000,000 to meet the emergency...
...their salaries will be, Conductor Whiteman donated most of his men's services, asking only expenses and $1,500 for crack Arranger Adolph Deutsch. During rehearsals Whiteman perspired through a green shirt, puffed a long cigar. Violinist Arthur Lipkin, chairman of the Dell concerts, went through an anti-rain ceremony on the strength of his having been made Honorary Medicine Man.& Rainmaker by Navajo Indians during the Philadelphians' national tour (TIME, April 27). It rained on one of the two nights...
...convert out of Blackie while Mr. Burley (Jack Holt) struggles to make an opera singer out of the chanteuse, so that she will be worthy of his manor on Nob Hill. The Burley plan is succeeding much better than Father Tim's when the bricks begin to rain...
...mother's life he decided that corrupt liberalism was back of it all. He came to believe that sinister international bankers were responsible for his financial difficulties, that these same bankers were fomenting world revolution for their own mysterious ends. When the roof leaked and the rain stained his bedroom ceiling, Bengt thought the stain looked like a mocking, Jewish profile. When his sister went to pieces, called him an affected young prig, he tried to remember to be ruthless, disciplined, to fix his eyes on the day the fascists would take power and all decay and misery would...