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...long five minutes after the announced change in location the suicide squad had hung Hitler's image from a home-made gallows. As the flames reached their height, more hexters appeared carrying unwilling head wizard, now bound from head to foot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifth Columnists Almost Disrupt Hex Burning of Hitler in Effigy | 2/20/1941 | See Source »

...Government is trying to make a mystery out of money to confuse the people. They have things in such a mess now that only a wizard can solve it. They must be crazy. Prospectors dig gold out of the ground, sell it to the Treasury, and they turn around and bury it in another hole in Kentucky and hire soldiers to guard it. ... A man should be able to take his ore down to the mint, get the Government to strike off the coins for him and keep the metal that rightfully belongs to him. There would be little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Paper Money | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

Behind the big tanks came lighter tanks and armored cars, followed by waves of soldiers, shouting out the chorus from The Wizard of Oz. By noon they had driven a gaping wedge into the Italian defenses 12,000 yards wide, 3,000 yards deep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, SOUTHERN THEATRE: Fall of Bardia | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

Oliver branched out to public parks and cemeteries, eventually to $10,000-and-up jobs for cinema stars in Hollywood, whither his fame had traveled. The worm wizard moved to California, set up a ten-acre experimental farm in Los Angeles County. It was guarded by tall board fences topped with barbed wire. When Depression set in after 1929, Oliver at last told his secret, for the benefit of hard-pressed farmers. By that time he had rolled up a tidy fortune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Praise for the Earthworm | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

...Oliver has devised what he calls an "intensive range" poultry diet-sprouted grain mixed with worms and worm-egg capsules. Fed on this at a cost of one-tenth of a cent a day, pullets start laying Grade A hen's eggs before they are five months old. Wizard Oliver also sells worm casts for fertilizer, and a liquid nutrient (for flower growers) which is made by letting water drip through worm casts in boxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Praise for the Earthworm | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

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