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June 11, 1943

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Crops Cut to 3-Year Low By Floods and a Drought; Federal Report Cites No Replanting in Some Areas, but Davis Hopes for Total Yield Equal to 1942 Record

By Samuel B. Bledsoe

WASHINGTON, June 10 -- A pessimistic crop report today said that prospects were less promising than at any time in the last three years, but a statement afterward by Chester C. Davis, War Food Administrator, said that total food production this year might equal the 1942 record if farmers had average weather and other breaks from now on.

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Ray Warren

1943Ray Warren, Australian sportscaster[†]

Raymond Warren is an Australian retired sports commentator, known for his coverage of televised professional rugby league matches on the Nine Network. He is known as the "Voice of Rugby League", and called 99 State of Origin games as well as 45 NRL Grand Finals. Warren also used to call Australian swimming team events and the FINA World Championships until Nine lost the rights to these events in 2008 and in 2012 participated in Nine's coverage of the London Olympics.