Word: repeatability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Argentine wheat farmers, overdue last week on their spring sowing, could not get a plow into the ground that a long drought had baked iron-hard. And due sometime next month was a dread enemy: the scourge of locusts trying to repeat their last year's feat of eating clean two northern provinces. Last week brought the farmers a good turn on both counts. Rain fell and softened the hard ground. And the Ministry of Agriculture got under way early against the locusts by announcing $5,000,000 worth of contracts for 12,000 mi. of sheet-iron locust...
Washington's result prompted Postmaster General Farley to repeat, with more emphasis than ever, his prediction that the 18th Amendment would be out of the Constitution by Jan. 1. Many a corporate taxpayer which was last week figuring out what it owed the Government and how much it would be saved by new levies on liquor was fervently hoping that "General" Farley was right...
Year ago not only the foreign Press but hundreds of intelligent observers in Germany honestly believed that the Junker Government of General von Schleicher and Col. von Papen had definitely ended the growth of Hitlerism in Germany. Anxious not to repeat the same mistake, observers have this year watched the fight of little Chancellor Dollfuss of Austria against Naziism with marked scepticism. They know that Austria's 6,500,000 are still nearly 50% pro-Nazi. They know that as a matter of prestige Adolf Hitler, who once roamed the streets of Vienna hungry, is willing to spend time...
...millions of American plutocrats. . . . Think of the brilliant agnostics who read from the Scriptures with crossed thumbs, tongues in the cheek, and mental reservations, who place the Bible on the one level with heathen philosophies. . . . Think of the smooth, oily surrender of the deity of our Savior ... I still repeat the cry, 'BACK TO LUTHER...
...time this statement was made I promptly and publicly, verbally and in print, characterized it as without a shred of truth. I was not contradicted then. I repeat to you what I said then...