Word: wakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many a U. S. husbandman is responsible for brush blazes that sometimes sweep into forest fires. Spring burnings last week sent greedy flames licking through richly wooded areas in Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, eating up many a sawmill and farmhouse in their way, leaving charred dead acres in their wake. Virginia's Natural Bridge National Park lost 9,000 acres of timber; the Shenandoah National Park, 2,000 acres. Sizzling and snapping up Black Mountain in the Purgatory Range, flames leapt over into Kentucky forests, destroyed a lumber camp. Villagers in widely scattered mountain districts were alarmed. Firefighters deployed...
Musical-EARL CARROLL'S SKETCH BOOK, SONS O' GUNS, FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN, WAKE UP AND DREAM, SIMPLE SIMON...
...January 1930, Sir Percival sailed for Turkey and came back overland through Europe, leaving consternation in his wake -such as the Steyr scandal in Vienna and the Isotta-Fraschini affair in Milan (TIME, March 31). Back in London, "Sir P.," who is after all an Englishman, did not join Mr. Ford in lambasting his countrymen. Instead, for his part, he discreetly praised the European workman, thus: "Laboring under the same conditions and receiving the same high wages the European workman is more efficient than the American, who is no miracle worker...
Outside of the doubtful advantages of such a whole-hearted vengeance on aristocracy and individuality, the law has carried in its wake numerous atrocities in which even "poor" peasants were classed as Kulaks and driven from house and home. Through the veil that shrouds Soviet Russia from the world, these glimpses reveal a governmental experiment of great magnitude. Whether another "noble experiment" or a distastrous reaction, it a waits the verdict of history...
Musical ? EARL CARROLL'S SKETCH BOOK, SONS o' GUNS, FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN, WAKE UP AND DREAM, SIMPLE SIMON...