Word: seasonally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine already has spent $2,500,000, and provided gratis 188,700 tons of deadly delicacy beloved by grasshoppers, a mixture of bran and sodium arsenite. The Bureau will ship enough more to spread 40,000,000 acres with poison bait by season's end. So that the grasshoppers will take readily to the fare, it is mixed with sawdust and water or molasses, flung over infested fields from buckets, or spread from barrels by whirling disks which the farmers rig on the rear axles of old automobiles and tow over the fields...
Thousands of blackshirted Fascists and cheering farmers tramped into a freshly cut wheat field near Aprilia one day last week to hear Premier Benito Mussolini officially open Italy's harvest season. Bustling up to Aprilia, one of the towns built on land reclaimed from the Pontine Marshes, in his automobile, Il Duce stripped to the waist, clambered atop a threshing machine. There he proceeded to blast away at early-spring predictions by observers in the U. S., Britain and France that Italy's vital wheat crop would fall far below normal this year. Folding his brawny arms across...
...Obolensky and cohorts of Manhattan socialites, went rangy Colonel de Basil, a great deal of scenery and the right to produce most of the important ballets in the repertory (TIME, Feb. 14). For a time the rival organizations glowered and girded them selves for rival U. S. tours next season. But four months ago, it was announced that the battle was off, that the two new ballet companies had decided to make up their differences, that a super-ballet com pany incorporating the talent of both groups would make its debut at Covent Garden in London this June. In absorbing...
Three weeks ago, Universal, reduced again to World-Art, Inc., was starting on a new scent, and was preparing to sue Educational Ballets. But Educational Ballets, backed by Baron Frederic D'Erlanger, jumped the gun and opened a season of ballet at Covent Garden with the original de Basil ballet's No. 2 choreographer, David Lichine, as director. The flittery world of the ballet having sprawled into another grand écart, World-Art announced that it would open this week across the street at Drury Lane with Massine in charge. Meantime Ballet's forgetful and forgotten...
...last week were in fourth place, but were leading the National League in club batting average, had the leading pitcher (Vander Meer), leading batter (Lombardi), leading homerun hitter (Goodman, whose 20 homeruns so far are more than any player in Cincinnati's history ever made in a whole season...