Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the announcement of the cast for its fifty-second play, "The Wind and the Rain" by Merton Hodge, the Dramatic Club moved rapidly forward with plans for April 30, opening night of the production...
...Wind and the Rain," Mr. Hodge's first, deals with undergraduate life at the Medical School of the University of Edinburgh. The Club's production will be directed by S. Wesley McKee, who graduated from the Yale School of the Drama. In 1934 and 1935, McKee won first prize in the New York competition for the production and direction of one-act plays...
...Rain fell one day last month in a little Kansas town called Ulysses, in Grant County. A local correspondent for a grain elevator house flashed the word to his Kansas City office. Direct wires carried the news to Chicago and Manhattan, where cables whipped it on to Liverpool and Buenos Aires. It was only a matter of minutes before all the world's wheat speculators knew that at last rain had moistened the dry wheat fields of the U. S. "dust bowl...
Then the U. S. Crop Reporting Board dampened all this market bearishness more effectively than rain had dampened Kansas. Predicting that 21% of all acreage sown last autumn would be abandoned, it forecast a winter wheat crop of only 493,000,000 bu. for 1936,60,000,000 bu. more than was harvested in lean 1935 but far below the 618.000,000 bu. average for the five preceding years...
Build me a home; I am hungry For the bark of a dog in a lane, For the sight of a light in a window at night And the song of a roof in the rain...