Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...money methods, the Senate paused for a few minutes last week to confirm the appointment of a new chief for a government service which, excepting only the Post Office Department, touches more closely the daily lives of more U. S. citizens than any other-the U. S. Weather Bureau...
...broke in the Moscow Press last week. Peasants in a dozen villages of the Soviet Far East were reported to have broken collective contracts signed not by them but for them by the local Soviets. The contracts bound the peasants to go out into the woods in sub-zero weather and stay there in lumber camps until they had cut specified quotas of wood...
...somebody forgot to put a limit on what the farmer could do with each acre--that is, intensive cultivation through the use of fertilizer. Also nature and the weather man sometimes increase production beyond expectations even on a given number of acres. Then there were the chiselers, who, while in a minority, have nevertheless aroused the feelings of those farmers who cooperated wholeheartedly with the plan...
...rarely break important world records. But the City of Miami and its archangel Henry Doherty see that visiting pilots have fun, and they, in turn, receive a good show and good publicity. Last week's meet, the sixth annual, ran true to form, except that for once the weather was wholly good...
GENTLEMEN-THE REGIMENT!-Hugh Talbot-Harper ($2.50). Weather-wise scanners of the literary skies say the prevailing winds are swinging into the romantic quarter. Anthony Adverse provided a whole bale of straws. And historical romances are now the order of the day. Though Author Talbot's Gentlemen-The Regiment! contains one or two scenes that certainly would not have amused Her Britannic Majesty, its general tone is dashingly Victorian. In mid-19th Century, when well-bred wives called their husbands "Mr." even in bed, the English county town of Harwick centred proudly in its two famed infantry regiments...