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...pasturage threatened a shortage of dairy products. Farmers from Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and West Virginia met in Richmond, sent Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard a plea for "immediate help." In the Ashland, Va. Herald-Progress Publisher Paul Watkins advertised: "WANTED: One good rain for immediate delivery. . . . No thunder showers, ten-minute gully-washers, easy sprinklers or dust-layers need apply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEATHER: Wanted: Rain | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

...right, If he'd inspect my pick and shovel, He'd always find them shining bright.* > The Air Corps now has an official song: Off we go into the wild blue yonder, Climbing high into the sun; Here they come zooming to meet our thunder, At 'em boys, give 'er the gun! . . . With scouts before and bombers galore Nothing'll stop the Army Air Corps!* > The Infantry song is still: The Infantry, the Infantry with dirt behind their ears, The Infantry, the Infantry, they drink up all the beers, The Cavalry, Artillery, and Corps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Songs for Soldiers | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

Coach Jack Barnaby's Varsity tennis team went down to a 5 to 1 defeat last Saturday afternoon at the hands of the powerful Pennsylvania team, Orme Wilson, beating Leo Bloom in the number five singles, accounted for the sole Crimson point as a sudden thunder storm cancelled all the doubles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Penn Sinks Netmen; 1944 Loses to Yale | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

...years go past upon his voice, carrying with them the rustle of the buffalo grass, the song of the loggers and the boatmen, and the Civil War's distant thunder; the Vag sees the gleam of the frontiersman's rifle and bridle fall to the ground and become the glint of the first railroad track across America. On either side of the rails the corn and wheat springs up with the houses, and the Indian mounts his pony and rides away forever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 5/3/1941 | See Source »

...double bill at the U.T., is neither a great picture, as it tries to be, nor as trite as it very well might be. It is the most recent of a long series of adaptations from Jack London's novels, all of which have been good blood-and-thunder pictures, but none of which have been able to rise above the essentially hackneyed character of the plot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 5/2/1941 | See Source »

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