Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year the Agricultural Adjustment Administration ladled out $100,000,000 in domestic allotments to cotton growers who destroyed a quarter of their crop. But good growing weather and human avarice thwarted the AAA program with the result that the 1933 cotton crop was even larger than that for 1932. To force crop cuts Senator John Hollis Bankhead and Representative William B. Bankhead persuaded the Administration to endorse their measure to tax surplus production out of existence rather than to try to spirit it off the market with cash. Last month the House passed (251-to-115) the bill...
...Simon & Schuster ($2.75). A capital ship for an ocean trip Was the Walloping Windowblind! No gale that blew dismayed her crew Or troubled the captain's mind; The man at the wheel was taught to feel Contempt for the wildest blow, Tho' it often appeared when the weather had cleared, That he'd been in his bunk below. -Charles Edward Carryl...
...first event of the season will be Handicap Meet, an intra-mural contest. The date of this meet has not yet been announced; it will depend on weather conditions. The cindermen will first take the field for Harvard in the Greater Boston Intercollegiates on Saturday April...
...Field, piloting his own observation plane, the General proceeded to Newark Airport, to Cleveland, to Chicago, to St. Louis. He found two-way radios with ranges up to 400 mi. were being installed on Army planes. Landing lights were being attached. Beacon signals were being improved and a teletype weather reporting system was nearly com plete. Old-type observation ships were being outfitted with artificial horizons, di rectional gyroscopes, new compasses and flight instruments. Work was progressing feverishly on new bombers in the Martin factory near Baltimore. . His inspection trip convinced General Foulois that the Army was now ready...
...Varsity and Freshmen tennis candidates will meet Coach Harry Cowles and Captain Sebert E. Davenport '34 today at 4.30 o'clock at the University Squash Building. Although men will not be able to play on the outside courts before Tuesday, April 10 even if the weather warrants it. Coach Cowles wants to examine his material and give the candidates some information concerning the coming season...