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Frightened livestockmen fought through the swarms to set smudges and dump oil on all exposed water. A few. fearing an epidemic of anthrax might follow, inoculated their stock. At Yazoo City, Miss., someone oiled his mules with axle grease; they were not bitten. The news spread and soon most mules in the adjacent territory were slick and glistening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Plague of Females | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

...Cock, the handsome fiance of the Prince's daughter Sonia; he sees the rascally Peter robbing the dead and wounded. At home, as the War goes worse and worse for Russia, he sees and feels the pinch of starvation begin, and the happy band of dogs at the dump heap grow quarrelsome until they are all, save Siedoi and mad Tsygan and a big brute called Pirate, shot down to conserve food. He sees the rising of the villagers and peasants, His Majesty the People led by the now legless rascal Peter, and their march upon the Prince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Men Like Dogs* | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

...winters' snows, Felled, carted, quartered, sawn, a metamorphosis within a week. And then a century buried deep within the White House walls, Unseen, unsung, but one of myriads holding firm together the storied structure. Until, a new age came and replaced steel for wood, then months upon the dump, The dump cart actually arrived jor one last ride- And then a rescue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Jingle Bells | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

This being so, the ability of the Soviet State to dump foodstuffs abroad is not spaciously limitless but definitely limited in 1930. Much as docile Russians will stand from their Dictator, eagerly as they swallow what Stalin tells his press to print, he can still take just so much grain and no more out of their mouths to sell abroad for ready cash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Wheat, Death, Reds | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

...Miller. Not in the least excited last week were millers, middlemen of wheat, who like to see it as cheap as possible. The Miller, organ of Great Britain's milling industry, waxed cheerful even over Dictator Stalin's policy of taking food out of Russian mouths to "dump" abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Wheat, Death, Reds | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

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