Word: storms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Driving back to Harvard after spring vacation in a blinding sleet storm, Col. Theodore Roosevelt's two eldest sons, Theodore III and Cornelius, did not see a truck stalled by the roadside at Shrewsbury, Mass. With Theodore driving the family station wagon, they crashed into the truck, demolished their car, crawled out with nothing worse than cuts, bruises and a broken right arm for Cornelius...
...homes. Every school in Baca County, Colo, was closed. In Texas the windswept hayfields were alive with blinded sparrows. Methodist congregations in Guymon, Okla. met three times a day to pray for rain._ Originally confined to a 200-mile strip between Canada and Mexico, last week's dust storm suddenly swirled eastward over Missouri, Iowa and Arkansas, crossed the Mississippi to unload on Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee and Louisiana. With half the nation blanketed in silt, farmers everywhere were asking what was going to happen to the wheat crop...
...crop now being planted was estimated at 190,000,000 bu. This, added to the winter wheat crop, will just about cover the annual U. S. wheat consumption of 625,000,000 bu. But the Agriculture Department's figures were drawn up before last week's dust storm. Its damage, estimated in the millions, may well throw the country back upon its wheat surplus (expected to total 145,000,000 bu. on July 1), may even result in the importation of wheat for ordinary flour...
...right hand to lay his other on Yurovsky. the Russian who had killed the Little Father of all Russians. Two of Yurovsky's brothers were later captured by the Whites, but what became of Yurovsky himself Bulygin does not say. Sokolov's published report raised a storm among the Whites, because some of them still hoped the royal family were still alive somewhere, and because some were backing fakes. But Author Bulygin smiles bitterly at the hopes, laughs bitterly at the pretenders...
Three years ago a book of short stories by Peter Neagoe, called Storm, was banned by the U. S. Customs on the ground of obscenity. Last year his first novel, Easter Sun, got a good hand from critics. By last week Author Neagoe was better known in the U. S. than most of his Rumanian compatriots. Earthy but not obscure, Peter Neagoe writes of barnyard happenings but not with the leer of the city-dweller. A Transylvanian Sylvanus, he tells with country gusto the chronicles of his sly, lustful, saintly and simple fellow-peasants...