Word: weather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mighty pile of legislative lumber remained last week to be sawed by Congress before adjournment. But controversies between men at opposite ends of the saw grew hotter with the weather instead of abating...
...Italy all last week Benito Mussolini's self-flown, trimotored airplane zoomed down from the sky into the busy countryside as II Duce kept a weather eye on the vital 5,400,000-hectare wheat harvest now in full swing. High winds, heavy rains and floods in May kept the wheat crop close to last year's figure of 293,600,000 bushels though 4% more land was seeded. Quality was poor, too, and favorable weather would be needed even to equal official forecasts. Though in southern Italy recovery from rain and rust was quick, around Bologna...
...Government mixed wheat flour with so much corn there was not enough left for polenta (corn meal mush) without which life for an Italian peasant is not worth living. Polenta-less peasants raised such a howl that this year Il Duce ordered mixing to stop. But cold wet weather reduced the Italian corn crop to less than last year's 121,110,000 bushels. The fruit crop too (which in orange-and-olive-growing Italy is important) is poor and late...
...weather its incendiary bullets are handy. They drive the enemy out of his flaming cover into the open where he can be mowed down by gunners firing at the rate of 600 lead-cored slugs a minute. Within 600 yards the shocking power of its standard bullets is terrific-one burst can tear away a man's face, one slug in shoulder or ankle can knock him sprawling...
...Collins heard nothing after that In his report to his company he wrote "If the Sea Dragon encountered such weather as we did on the night of March 23, and she undoubtedly did, there i small chance that the little craft survived...