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...independent of foreign wheat imports. Due to years of intensified cultivation and reclamation of some 6,600,000 acres of swampland, Italian farms last year produced about 300,000,000 bushels, 20,000,000 more than the nor mal national need which was Mussolini's goal. The coldest, wettest winter since the turn of the Century, followed by a prolonged spring drought led to anticipation that this year's crop would fall to 220,000,000 bushels. Recent rains came in the nick of time and it is now predicted that the harvest will produce slightly over...
...Houses Lowell polled the largest vote. Of the 202 ballots cast there, only 14 opposed making the question a political issue and only 16 favored continuation of the existing situation. Eliot polled the wettest vote when only a little more than 2 per cent of the 163 in favor of putting prohibition in the platforms voted in favor of continuation of the present laws...
...London reported the wettest day of the wettest summer in 40 years last week. The Thames was up. The London fire brigade received hourly calls to pump out flooded houses. At Silverdale. near Stoke-upon-Trent, the whole (town took to the upper stories. Streets, fields, and lower stories were awash...
...Cornell University; Mr. & Mrs. Harper Sibley, rich religious leaders of Rochester, N. Y. † Last month Dr. Clarence True Wilson, publicly criticizing the personnel of the Wickersham Commission, characterized Commissioner Ada Comstock as "President of a woman's college [Radcliffe] which has been known as one of the wettest and one of the smokiest. . . ." **By sudden, unexpected fire drills at dead of night do alert Mt. Holyoke officials sometimes check up on their students' whereabouts...
After the wettest, coldest summer in years?a summer that rotted potatoes in the ground in Ireland, nearly ruined the French wheat crop, brought disastrous business to summer resorts?all Europe fried last week. Newspapers, eager to blame anything from the cost of living to the morals of the younger generation on the U. S., wrote columns about the "American heat." Only wine and wheat growers rejoiced, hoped that the dry, hot weather would revive the remnant of their water-logged crops...