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Resort people in the Estes Park region, which adjoins the Rocky Mountain National Park, refer to these civilian soldiers who have flocked into our national forests, as ''woodpeckers." Aside from a common habitat there is a further resemblance, for the uniformed men migrate from work-spot to work-spot in old, red, sight-seeing busses from which they descend with a clatter to do their busywork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 3, 1933 | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

...Your reference to lynching in Virginia is so worded as to imply that it is quite an ordinary-happenstance. TIME, which purports to know all things, may well refer its readers to the number of lynchings which have occurred in Virginia and compare such outlawry to what goes on in sections where it is, I presume, felt that "Yankee Common Sense" controls the will of the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 29, 1933 | 5/29/1933 | See Source »

...course both houses suspended their rules, conferred official status upon the chickadee. Then it was the State's turn to have fun. The chickadee is a member of the titmouse family. Editors remembered "Little Tommy Tittlemouse" who "lived in a little house," began to refer to the "Tomtit Legislature." Clubs and societies stirred uneasily at the prospect of North Carolina's becoming known as the "tomtit State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Tomtitters | 5/29/1933 | See Source »

There was but a minor error which in behalf of our Dutch friends, especially several pilot friends, members of the bombing squadron at the above mentioned affair, we wish to rectify. We refer to the bombing account which tended to impress that the bombers' marksmanship was a bit poor. The fact is but one small 50 Kilo (110. 25 Ib.) bomb was dropped-a direct hit- the finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 22, 1933 | 5/22/1933 | See Source »

...future time you have occasion to refer to the poultry industry you would confer a favor upon the dealers in dressed poultry if you would make it clear that the dressed poultry industry is free from racketeering and graft, and is conducted on strictly legitimate lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 22, 1933 | 5/22/1933 | See Source »

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