Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sturdy French Algerian and Tunisian farmer in one of Rome's old granaries had their crops gathered, their barns bursting with a big wheat surplus before harvest began in France. There it was three weeks late because last autumn's freezes killed out 25% of the winter wheat which then had to be resown. Adequate snowfalls and spring rains helped, but the French wheat crop will be well under last year's, though ample for French needs even had 268,000,000 bushels not been carried over. The great French need was not wheat but field-hands...
Although German-Brazilian trade continued to flourish, Brazil and Germany pouted diplomatically at each other throughout the winter. Italy, Germany's Axis partner, joined the pouting when it tried unsuccessfully to get Brazilian coffee by barter arrangement rather than pay gold for it. This spring Countess Edda Ciano, wife of the Italian Foreign Minister, daughter of Benito Mussolini and a capable behind-the-scenes Axis diplomat, visited Brazil (TIME, May 22). While "health" Daughter trip, Edda said Brazilians she was thought only her on a visit somehow connected with Axis diplomacy...
...more than 50 years Dr. Mott, a serene-faced man of disciplined energy, has traveled the world for the Y. M. C. A. and the International Missionary Council. The I. M. C., coordinator of Protestant foreign missions, re-elected Dr. Mott its chairman at its meeting in Madras last winter. Dr. Mott, now 74, requested that his term be limited to three years. Last week he addressed the Foreign Missions Conference of North America at Swarthmore College...
...traditional side show of London's Season-the weeks of social harvest between the opening of the Royal Academy in May and the first week of August-is opera at elderly, fuddy-duddy Covent Garden. Last winter, Londoners talked of letting Covent Garden sit out this Season. Some reasons: some backers objected to German and Italian singers, Wagnerian operas; others were alarmed about wars and rumors of wars. To the rescue of Covent Garden leaped gruff, goateed Sir Thomas Beecham, who has spent uncounted sums from his pill income ("Worth a Guinea a Box") to give England good music...
...March, with due ceremony, Benefactor Frank presented his streamlined "disaster wagon" to the city. Hordes of Portlanders gaped at its shiny coffee urn, at emergency hospital and surgery paraphernalia, gas masks, water pumps, a two-way radio, portable searchlights, acetylene torches, wrecking tools, respirators, even snowshoes and toboggans for winter rescues...