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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...that shook Adolf (Providence-Is-With-Me) Hitler's latest victim, Rumania, last weekend was not a seven or eight but an Intensity Nine lateral quake that caused the ground to shift back & forth like corn in a popper. "It was like being on top of a poplar tree ... in a high wind," cabled a reporter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Quake and Answer | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

...stone porch to joke with his friends. All day he had been jovially confident. That morning after voting (No. 292) at the town hall, accompanied by Wife Eleanor and Mother Sara, he had wisecracked with persistent New York News Photographer Sammy Shuman. Shuman: "Will you wave at the trees, Mr. President?" Roosevelt: "Go climb a tree." Shuman: "Please." Roosevelt: "You know I never wave at trees unless they have leaves on them." Now he said to the villagers: "I don't need to tell you that we face difficult days in this country, but I think you will find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Victory | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

...Diesel-smooth Republican machine is reminiscent of the days when well-oiled U. S. Republican machines ran almost everything that moved. Although it couldn't carry the State for Wendell Willkie, silver-haired Governor John William Bricker rode in on it ahead of his Democratic opponent, natty, spatty Tree Surgeon Martin Luther Davey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES: Governors | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

...Improve wild rubber production. Inferiority is not inherent, is caused by ignorant siringueiros indiscriminately tapping any or all of 14 different varieties of rubber tree, so that the bacia (caldron) produces a hybrid bolacha. Remedy: teach them to confine themselves to the Hevea brasiliensis and scientific tapping of trees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Rubber Rebound? | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

Died. Air Vice Marshal Charles Hubert Blount (rhymes with hunt), commander of the R. A. F. Army Cooperation units with the B. E. F., an expert on air-ground coordination; of burns after his plane cracked into a tree in taking off; somewhere in England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 4, 1940 | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

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