Word: sowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keep the dollar, pound and franc all stabilized at their present level (TIME, Oct. 5). Cried M. Auriol: "Mr. Morgenthau has made the best answer both to the skeptics who called our original accord illusory and to men of bad intentions and bad faith who did not hesitate to sow anxiety in the public mind...
...they must stop work, and something besides for the midwife. However, Italian farm mothers of the type to whom Il Duce geared his oration last week are apt to consider the calling in of a doctor or midwife no more necessary for a healthy woman than for a healthy sow...
Additional new contracts go to Italian World War veterans whom II Duce has settled as colonists on the reclaimed Pontine Marshes about 50 miles south of Rome, a district infested for centuries with malaria but now ditched, drained, booming and blooming. Arriving at a Pontine farm which he helped sow with wheat last year, the Dictator last week pitched in under a broiling sun and helped thresh. Afterward, with sweat pouring down his dust-begrimed face, Thresher Mussolini presented his work slip for an hour's labor, drew the regulation five lire...
...first time since 1931. The Department of Agriculture last week reported the smallest world wheat surplus in nine years. Modifying its crop reduction-soil conservation program in the emergency, AAA announced that farmers in the East Central States who had planted land to unprofitable soil-building crops could sow enough food and feed crops to bring their production up to normal, get their Government bounties just the same...
...Francisco insurance man and a Chamber vice president. At a preliminary session he orated: "Today the individual is no longer free to move as he pleases in the field of his lawful affairs. He must wait to get the 'go' sign from Washington before he can sow a field of wheat, plant a couple of rows of potatoes, fire a fellow who is stirring up trouble in the factory, get a few friends to buy stock in a new venture . . . or do any of a dozen other simple and ordinary things in which, a few years...