Word: sackfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dull statistics and clarion shouts for the Five-Year Plan are Russian newspapers. But not long ago a leading Soviet editor rebelled, told the Kremlin privately but passionately that there must be more human interest, fewer statistics and less propaganda in his newspaper. Instanter the editor got the sack, was expelled from the Party. But his advice is being deeply pondered. Already a change looms, and some human interest has crept into Mos cow's Evening News, which even good Party members are reading more avidly than the dry-as-dust Pravda or Izvestia...
...gloves. He still smiles and tells jokes, likes to stand shyly in the back row in group photographs of the Cabinet. He dislikes announcements and interviews. Last week when cornered by the New York Times Correspondent Frederick T. Birchall he was careful to doff his uniform for a grey sack suit and a most pacific necktie. Mild as milk were his answers to Correspondent Birchall's written questions...
...brave Yawalapiti would not for a long time touch the "egg" dropped by the sky-thing. When it gave out no sound, no movement, no smell, one brave ventured to poke it with his fishing spear. The sack uttered a tinkle. The Yawalapiti leaped upon it, ripped it with his sharp spear. Out fell knives, fishhooks and other trade goods-which delighted them...
...Yawalapiti were going to battle the huge creature circling down upon them. The women ran into the jungle, ripping off their uluri (genital charms) as sacrifice to the demon. But the village site was too small for the plane to land. Anthropologist Petrullo & Victrola-Hein Johnson dropped a sack full of good-will offerings upon the village, flew back south...
Ruthlessly resolved to force coffee prices up, Brazil's National Coffee Council continues to burn coffee (TIME, July 6). It announced last week that 6,565,641 sacks of coffee have been burned. It promised to burn by Jan. 1, 1933 a total of 18 million sacks each containing 132 Ib. of coffee. At approximately $6.50 per sack, $117,000,000 worth of coffee will have been turned to smoke...