Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remarkable of a series of what even the President called costly failures was an effort to settle 200 U. S. farmers in Alaska's Matanuska Valley, where many of those settlers, still remaining after two years of tribulation, are spending this summer trying to raise a crop of winter wheat because the Government supplied them with the wrong seed. In June 1936, R. A. had a 19,700 payroll. Last July, it had been cut almost in half. When R. A. officially died last week, its major functions were transferred to a new agency called Farm Security Administration, whose...
...Washington one day last week, Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace made two announcements. One was that R. A., moribund since Dr. Tugwell resigned last winter, was at last officially dead. The other was that Greenbelt was at last ready for occupancy and that, when its first tenants move in about Oct. 1, all Greenbelt's commercial enterprises will be run by a branch of Boston Merchant Edward A. Filene's Consumer Distribution Corp...
Next month every one of the 300,000 Civilian Conservation Corps enrollees who is willing will get a hypodermic injection in his arm. In consequence it is hoped that no more than 300 of them will develop pneumonia this winter, and only ten of them will die from this disease, which regularly kills 100,000 U. S. people each year. But those CCC men who refuse the injections will not be so lucky. According to the averages, pneumonia will fell two out of every thousand of them, and one out of eleven who take sick may expect...
...Wooster, Ohio, studied at a seminary run by Fathers of the Precious Blood, was ordained in 1908 and given a parish in Fort Wayne, Ind., still his home diocese. For a time Father Arnold had the odd task of acting as chaplain for Catholics in the Wallace Circus, in winter quarters at Peru. Ind. In 1913, he applied to the chaplain bishop of his church for an appointment as army chaplain. He was going to try it only for a year, but liked the life so well that he remained, made the round of army posts and rose steadily...
...regular Class officers are elected along with the officers of the upperclasses during the Winter term. Superseding in large part the Union Committee, these officers have a number of duties to perform in connection with the Jubilee, smokers, etc, and are considerably active...